Climate change and thresholds of biome shifts in Amazonia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Salazar, Luis Fernando ^a,b   Nobre, Carlos A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; TROPICS;

AMAZONIA; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; DRY SEASONS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SHRUBLANDS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77956779365     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043538     Document Type: Article

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