Global terrestrial productivity in the mid-Cretaceous (100 Ma): Model simulations and data

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 385-390

  Beerling, David J ^a   Woodward, F Ian ^a   Valdes, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOSYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING; CO2 CONCENTRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL SIMULATION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; PARTS PER MILLIONS; SHEFFIELD DYNAMIC GLOBAL VEGETATION MODELS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PALEOCLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOIL CARBON; TREE RING; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 84870944048     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.385     Document Type: Article

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