Climate-biosphere interactions in a more extreme world

New Phytologist

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 356-359

  Bahn, Michael ^a   Reichstein, Markus ^b   Dukes, Jeffrey S ^c,d   Smith, Melinda D ^e   Mcdowell, Nate G ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Earth system models; Ecosystem process; Extreme climatic events; Legacy effect; Resilience; Threshold response; Tipping point

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; CLIMATE; EARTH SYSTEM MODELS; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM PROCESS; EXTREME CLIMATIC EVENTS; HUMAN; LEGACY EFFECT; LETTER; RESILIENCE; THRESHOLD RESPONSE; TIPPING POINT;

ACCLIMATION; EARTH SYSTEM MODELS; ECOSYSTEM PROCESS; EXTREME CLIMATIC EVENTS; LEGACY EFFECT; RESILIENCE; THRESHOLD RESPONSE; TIPPING POINT;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS;

EID: 84896544054     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12662     Document Type: Letter

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