Progress in DGVMs: A comment on "Impacts of trait variation through observed trait-climate relationships on performance of an Earth system model: A conceptual analysis" by Verheijen et al. (2013)

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 4357-4360

  Higgins, S I ^a   Langan, L ^b   Scheiter, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIGITAL IMAGE;

EID: 84904313233     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-4357-2014     Document Type: Review

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