Modeling responses of the meadow steppe dominated by Leymus chinensis to climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 82, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 437-452

  Wang, Yuhui ^a,b   Zhou, Guangsheng ^a   Wang, Yonghe ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRODUCTIVITY;

CARBON STOCK; GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS; LEYMUS CHINENSIS; MEADOW STEPPE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MEADOW; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL CARBON; STEPPE; TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

LEYMUS CHINENSIS;

EID: 34247232732     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9145-z     Document Type: Article

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