Long-term sunspot forcing of savanna structure inferred from carbon and oxygen isotopes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Woodborne, Stephan ^a   Mélice, Jean Luc ^b,c   Scholes, Robert J ^a  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; RAIN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

SAVANNA STRUCTURE; SUNSPOT FORCING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WAVELET COHERENCE ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CORRELATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SAVANNA; TREE RING; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 40849124188     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032019     Document Type: Article

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