Global responses of terrestrial productivity to contemporary climatic oscillations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1504, 2008, Pages 2779-2785

  Woodward, F I ^a   Lomas, M R ^a   Quaife, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advanced very high resolution radiometer; El Ni o southern oscillation; Gross primary production; Normalized difference vegetation index; Pacific decadal oscillation

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NDVI; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 47249109298     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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