Earlier springs decrease peak summer productivity in North American boreal forests

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Buermann, Wolfgang ^a   Bikash, Parida R ^b   Jung, Martin ^c   Burn, Donald H ^d   Reichstein, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

boreal forests; climate change; remote sensing; seasonality; summer drought

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER SUPPLY;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; BOREAL FORESTS; ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; SEASONALITY; SOIL MOISTURE DEFICITS; SUMMER DROUGHTS;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; LATITUDE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SUMMER;

DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOISTURE; PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL; WATER SUPPLY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84880861903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024027     Document Type: Article

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