Replies to Shen, Chen et al., and Yi and Zhou: Linear regression analysis misses effects of winter temperature on Tibetan vegetation

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

Volumn 108, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

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

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING; VEGETATION; WINTER;

EID: 79956368091     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103336108     Document Type: Letter

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