Spatio-temporal patterns and climate variables controlling of biomass carbon stock of global grassland ecosystems from 1982 to 2006

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1783-1802

  Xia, Jiangzhou ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^b,c   Liang, Shunlin ^a,d   Chen, Yang ^a   Xu, Wenfang ^a   Yuan, Wenping ^a,e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass carbon stock; Environmental controls; Grassland; Meta analysis; NDVI

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; VEGETATION;

CARBON STOCKS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; GRASSLAND; META-ANALYSIS; NDVI;

BIOMASS;

EID: 84897016229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6031783     Document Type: Article

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