Simulating the two-way feedback between terrestrial ecosystems and climate: Importance of forest ecological processes on global change

Forest Canopies: Forest Production, Ecosystem Health and Climate Conditions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 111-126

  Ise, Takeshi ^a   Hajima, Tomohiro ^a   Sato, Hisashi ^a   Kato, Tomomichi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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