Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 755-758

  Holmgren, Milena ^a   Hirota, Marina ^a,b   Van Nes, Egbert H ^a   Scheffer, Marten ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Centre for Monitoring and Warnings of Natural Disasters   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HERBIVORE; RAINFALL; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; VEGETATION COVER;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84880867390     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1906     Document Type: Article

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