Global vegetation biomass change (1988-2008) and attribution to environmental and human drivers

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 692-705

  Liu, Yi Y ^a,b,c   van Dijk, Albert I J M ^c,d   McCabe, Matthew F ^a   Evans, Jason P ^a   de Jeu, Richard A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crop production; Deforestation; Fire; Long term change; Passive microwave; Precipitation; Vegetation optical depth

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CROP PRODUCTION; DEFORESTATION; FIRE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84877611268     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12024     Document Type: Article

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