Variations in leaf area index in northern and eastern North America over the past 21,000 years: a data-model comparison

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 13-14, 2008, Pages 1453-1466

  Gonzales, Leila M ^a,b   Williams, John W ^a   Kaplan, Jed O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM BIOGEOCHEMISTRY-BIOGEOGRAPHY VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOLOCENE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; TESTING METHOD; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ALASKA; CANADA; MIDWEST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46549083992     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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