Indirect vegetation-soil moisture feedback with application to Holocene North Africa climate1

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1733-1743

  Liu, Z ^a   Notaro, M ^a   Gallimore, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Indirect feedback; Soil moisture feedback; Vegetation feedback

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION;

NORTH AFRICA;

POACEAE;

EID: 77953668436     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02087.x     Document Type: Article

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