Patterns and processes of global shrub expansion

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 423-442

  Naito, Adam T ^a   Cairns, David M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; disturbance; global change; livestock; mapping; shrub expansion; simulation modeling

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; LAND MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE DATA; SAVANNA; SHRUB; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARCTIC;

EID: 79960489142     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133311403538     Document Type: Review

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