The impact of ecosystem functional type changes on the La Plata Basin climate

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1387-1405

  Lee, Seung Jae ^a   Berbery, E Hugo ^a   Alcaraz Segura, Domingo ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ecosystem function; EFT; La Plata Basin; land cover; model simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881604168     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-2149-x     Document Type: Article

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