Systems approaches in global change and biogeochemistry research

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1586, 2012, Pages 311-321

  Smith, Pete ^a   Albanito, Fabrizio ^a   Bell, Madeleine ^a   Bellarby, Jessica ^a   Blagodatskiy, Sergey ^a   Datta, Arindam ^a   Dondini, Marta ^a   Fitton, Nuala ^a   Flynn, Helen ^a   Hastings, Astley ^a   Hillier, Jon ^a   Jones, Edward O ^a   Kuhnert, Matthias ^a   Nayak, Dali R ^a   Pogson, Mark ^a   Richards, Mark ^a   Sozanska Stanton, Gosia ^a   Wang, Shifeng ^a   Yeluripati, Jagadeesh B ^a   Bottoms, Emily ^a   Brown, Chris ^a   Farmer, Jenny ^a   Feliciano, Diana ^a   Hao, Cui ^a   Robertson, Andy ^a   Vetter, Sylvia ^a   Wong, Hon Man ^a   Smith, Jo ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Ecology; Global change; Model; System biology; Systems approach

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; GLOBAL CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RESEARCH WORK; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 82755197474     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0173     Document Type: Review

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