Confronting terrestrial biosphere models with forest inventory data

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 699-715

  Lichstein, Jeremy W ^a   Golaz, Ni Zhang ^b   Malyshev, Sergey ^b   Shevliakova, Elena ^b   Zhang, Tao ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^c   Birdsey, Richard A ^d   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^b   Pacala, Stephen W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle model; Data assimilation; Errors in explanatory variables; Global ecosystem model; Land surface model; Measurement error models

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; FOREST INVENTORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TIMESCALE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

UNITED STATES;

RAIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TREES; WATER;

EID: 84896044272     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0600.1     Document Type: Article

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