Spatial variations in aboveground net primary productivity along a climate gradient in Eurasian temperate grassland: Effects of mean annual precipitation and its seasonal distribution

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3624-3631

  Guo, Qun ^a,b   Hu, Zhongmin ^a   Li, Shenggong ^a   Li, Xuanran ^a,b,c   Sun, Xiaomin ^a   Yu, Guirui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Chifeng University   (China)

Author keywords

Aboveground net primary productivity; Climate change; Mean annual precipitation; Precipitation seasonal distribution; Temperate grassland

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRASSLAND; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84868207358     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12010     Document Type: Article

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