Robust dynamics of Amazon dieback to climate change with perturbed ecosystem model parameters

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2476-2495

  Poulter, Benjamin ^a,b   Hattermann, Fred ^b   Hawkins, Ed ^c   Zaehle, Sönke ^d   Sitch, Stephen ^e   Restrepo Coupe, Natalia ^f   Heyder, Ursula ^b   Cramer, Wolfgang ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forest dieback; Latin hypercube; Photosynthesis; Variance partitioning; Vegetation dynamics; Water use

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PARAMETERIZATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 77955246014     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02157.x     Document Type: Article

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