Spatial and temporal relationships between precipitation and ANPP of four types of grasslands in northern China

Journal of Environmental Sciences (China)

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1024-1030

  Guo, Ran ^a   Wang, Xiao kc ^a   Ouyang, Zhi yun ^a   Li, Ying nian ^b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Above ground net primary productivity; Inter annual changes; Mean annual precipitation; Spatial sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CUMULATIVE PRECIPITATION; INTERANNUAL; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SPATIAL SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATE DESERT STEPPES; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; WATER-LIMITED REGIONS;

VEGETATION;

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; POACEAE;

CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; POACEAE; RAIN;

EID: 33947505390     PISSN: 10010742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-0742(06)60033-8     Document Type: Article

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