Dynamics of the larch taiga-permafrost coupled system in Siberia under climate change

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Ningning ^a,b   Yasunari, Tetsuzo ^a   Ohta, Takeshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

soil hydrology; taiga permafrost; vegetation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960320558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024003     Document Type: Article

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