The climatic sensitivity of the forest, savanna and forest-savanna transition in tropical South America

New Phytologist

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 707-719

  Hirota, Marina ^a   Nobre, Carlos ^a   Oyama, Marcos Daisuke ^b   Bustamante, Mercedes MC ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE AERONÁUTICA E ESPAÇO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conceptual modeling; Forest savanna boundary; Natural fires; South America

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

BARE SOIL; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST FIRE; GLOBAL WARMING; LIGHTNING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAVANNA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHRUBLAND; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRANSITION ZONE; TROPICAL FOREST; VULNERABILITY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

BRAZIL;

EID: 77955126382     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03352.x     Document Type: Article

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