Winter and spring warming result in delayed spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 51, 2010, Pages 22151-22156

  Yu, Haiying ^a,b   Luedeling, Eike ^b   Xu, Jianchu ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; VEGETATION; WINTER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; SEASONS; TIBET;

EID: 78650666132     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012490107     Document Type: Article

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