Vegetation dynamics - Simulating responses to climatic change

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 643-670

  Woodward, F I ^a   Lomas, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric CO2; Carbon sequestration; Global change; Primary productivity; Respiration; Vegetation distribution; Vegetation model

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; BIOSPHERE; CANOPY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND BIOME; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; REVIEW; VEGETATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; SOIL;

EID: 4344650280     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793103006419     Document Type: Review

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