Predicting the Effect of Climate Change on Global Plant Productivity and the Carbon Cycle

Plant Growth and Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 187-208

  Grace, John ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Global warming; Greenhouse gases; Plant growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889319324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988695.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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