Response of African humid tropical forests to recent rainfall anomalies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1625, 2013, Pages

  Asefi Najafabady, Salvi ^a   Saatchi, Sassan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

African rainforest; Climate change; Drought; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FRAGMENTATION; HUMID TROPICS; LAND DEGRADATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL FOREST; WATER BUDGET;

AFRICA;

RAIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN RAINFOREST; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; RESILIENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AFRICAN RAINFOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; RESILIENCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; RAIN; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84895854526     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0306     Document Type: Article

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