Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 389-393

  Luyssaert, Sebastiaan ^a   Jammet, Mathilde ^b   Stoy, Paul C ^c   Estel, Stephan ^d   Pongratz, Julia ^e   Ceschia, Eric ^f   Churkina, Galina ^d   Don, Axel ^e   Erb, Karlheinz ^g   Ferlicoq, Morgan ^h   Gielen, Bert ⁱ   Grünwald, Thomas ^j   Houghton, Richard A ^k   Klumpp, Katja ^l   Knohl, Alexander ^m   Kolb, Thomas ⁿ   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^c,o   Laurila, Tuomas ^p   Lohila, Annalea ^p   Loustau, Denis ^q   McGrath, Matthew J ^a   Meyfroidt, Patrick ^r   Moors, Eddy J ^s   Naudts, Kim ^a   Novick, Kim ^t   Otto, Juliane ^a   Pilegaard, Kim ^u   Pio, Casimiro A ^v   Rambal, Serge ^w   Rebmann, Corinna ^x   Ryder, James ^a   Suyker, Andrew E ^y   Varlagin, Andrej ^z   Wattenbach, Martin ^aa   Dolman, A Johannes ^ab   more..

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^f CESBIO   (France)

^g THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

ⁱ Res Grp Plant Vegetation Ecol U   (Belgium)

^j DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^k WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^l French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

ⁿ NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^p FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^q BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^r UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^s WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^t USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^u TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^v UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^w CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^x HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^y UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^z SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^aa GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^ab VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 84899543033     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2196     Document Type: Article

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