Early warning signals of simulated Amazon rainforest dieback

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 373-384

  Boulton, Chris A ^a   Good, Peter ^b   Lenton, Timothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon dieback; Early warning; HadCM3; Tipping point

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CARBON; CLIMATE MODELING; DIEBACK; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FOREST COVER; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFOREST; SIGNALING; VEGETATION;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84880703116     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-013-0191-7     Document Type: Article

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