Climate change consequences on the biome distribution in tropical South America

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Salazar, Luis F ^a   Nobre, Carlos A ^a   Oyama, Marcos D ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE AERONÁUTICA E ESPAÇO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FORECASTING; STATISTICS; VEGETATION;

BIOME DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FOREST COVER; SAVANNA; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION;

CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; FORECASTS; PLANTS; STATISTICS;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34347210980     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029695     Document Type: Article

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