Responses of grassland and forest to temperature and precipitation changes in Northeast China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1063-1077

  Peng, Jing ^a   Dong, Wenjie ^a   Yuan, Wenping ^a   Zhang, Yong ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

drought; forest; grassland; NDVI departures; Northeast China; precipitation departures; temperature departures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865627244     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1172-2     Document Type: Article

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