Exploring the effects of water on vegetation change and net primary productivity along the IGBP Northeast China Transect

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1481-1490

  Zhang, Yujin ^a,b   Zhou, Guangsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Climate variations; Mechanisms; Net primary productivity; Northeast China Transect; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; DOMINANT FACTOR; FUTURE CLIMATE; NATURAL VEGETATION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; NORTHEAST CHINA TRANSECT; POSITIVE EFFECTS; RATE OF CHANGE; SOIL TYPES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VEGETATION TYPE;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL TYPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA;

EID: 79952467644     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0632-1     Document Type: Article

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