Critical impacts of global warming on land ecosystems

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 347-357

  Ostberg, S ^a   Lucht, W ^a,b   Schaphoff, S ^a   Gerten, D ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; LAND SURFACE PROPERTIES; PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELS; EMISSION CONTROL; GLOBAL WARMING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; SAVANNA; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 84891928081     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-4-347-2013     Document Type: Article

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