Net primary productivity response to climate change in the Mount Kenya ecosystem

Climate Change Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 231-246

  Adimo, Ochieng Aggrey ^a   Bosco, Njoroge John ^a   Leonard, Wamocho ^a  

^a KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Downscaling; Ecosystem function; Mount Kenya; Production efficiency model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878773778     PISSN: 16102002     EISSN: 16102010     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22315-0_14     Document Type: Chapter

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