Reply to Wang et al.: Snow cover and air temperature affect the rate of changes in spring phenology in the Tibetan Plateau

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 31, 2013, Pages

  Dong, Jinwei ^a   Zhang, Geli ^b   Zhang, Yangjian ^b   Xiao, Xiangming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; GROWING SEASON; LETTER; MELTING POINT; PHENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; SPRING; VEGETATION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84881105147     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306813110     Document Type: Letter

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