Nonlinearly combined impacts of initial perturbation from human activities and parameter perturbation from climate change on the grassland ecosystem

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 883-893

  Sun, G ^a   Mu, M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION;

EID: 82455163928     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-18-883-2011     Document Type: Article

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