Effect of plant dynamic processes on African vegetation responses to climate change: Analysis using the spatially explicit individual-based dynamic global vegetation model (SEIB-DGVM)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sato, Hisashi ^a   Ise, Takeshi ^b,c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOME; CALIBRATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DIEBACK; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GROWTH RATE; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SOIL CARBON; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA;

EID: 84865404449     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JG002056     Document Type: Article

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