Impacts of increased variability in precipitation and air temperature on net primary productivity of the Tibetan Plateau: A modeling analysis

Climatic Change

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 321-332

  Ye, Jian Sheng ^a   Reynolds, James F ^a,b   Sun, Guo Jun ^a   Li, Feng Min ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MODELING ANALYSIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; PRECIPITATION GRADIENTS; PROCESS-BASED ECOSYSTEM MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS;

LASERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84879137680     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0719-2     Document Type: Article

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