Impacts of droughts on carbon sequestration by China's terrestrial ecosystems from 2000 to 2011

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2583-2599

  Liu, Y ^a,b   Zhou, Y ^a   Ju, W ^a   Wang, S ^c   Wu, X ^a   He, M ^a   Zhu, G ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE FORCING; DROUGHT; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

CHINA;

EID: 84900842338     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-2583-2014     Document Type: Article

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