Projecting climate change effects on forest net primary productivity in subtropical Louisiana, USA

Ambio

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 506-520

  Wang, Fugui ^a,b   Xu, Y Jun ^a   Dean, Thomas J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community Climate System Model 3.0 (CCSM3.0); Net primary productivity; Pnet II; Subtropical forests; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; TREES; UNITED STATES;

LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959781572     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-011-0135-7     Document Type: Article

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