Relationship between variability in aboveground net primary production and precipitation in global grasslands

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Yang, Yuanhe ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a   Ma, Wenhong ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATIONS; GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS; HUMID REGIONS; INTER-ANNUAL VARIATIONS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; GRASSLAND; GROWTH RATE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHYTOMASS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 60149090328     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035408     Document Type: Article

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