Effects of land use/land cover and climate changes on terrestrial net primary productivity in the Yangtze River Basin, China, from 2001 to 2010

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1092-1109

  Zhang, Yulong ^a,b   Song, Conghe ^a,c   Zhang, Kerong ^b   Cheng, Xiaoli ^b   Band, Lawrence E ^a,d   Zhang, Quanfa ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; land use land cover change; scenario design; terrestrial net primary productivity; Yangtze River Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904644737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JG002616     Document Type: Article

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