Drought sensitivity of patterned vegetation determined by rainfall-land surface feedbacks

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Konings, Alexandra G ^a   Dekker, Stefan C ^b   Rietkerk, Max ^b   Katul, Gabriel G ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; BOUNDARY LAYER; DESERTIFICATION; DROUGHT STRESS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYTOMASS; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TIMESCALE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NIGER [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 80155211492     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001748     Document Type: Article

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