A reconstruction of global agricultural areas and land cover for the last millennium

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Pongratz, J ^a,b   Reick, C ^a   Raddatz, T ^a   Claussen, M ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; AGRICULTURAL AREAS; DOMINANT PROCESS; EARTH SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEM MODELS; FORESTED AREAS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HISTORICAL CHANGES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAND COVERS; LAND-COVER CHANGES; NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS; NATURAL GRASSLANDS; NATURAL VEGETATIONS; POPULATION DATUM; POPULATION ESTIMATES; REGIONAL SCALE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RESTORATION; VEGETATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PASTURE; RECONSTRUCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 62749187103     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GB003153     Document Type: Article

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