Responses of alpine grassland on Qinghai-Tibetan plateau to climate warming and permafrost degradation: A modeling perspective

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Yi, Shuhua ^a   Wang, Xiaoyun ^a,b   Qin, Yu ^a   Xiang, Bo ^c   Ding, Yongjian ^a  

^a State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Chongqing Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

alpine grassland; climate warming; modeling; permafrost degradation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MODELS; PERMAFROST; SOIL MOISTURE;

ALPINE GRASSLANDS; CLIMATE WARMING; HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PERMAFROST DEGRADATION; PERMAFROST HYDROLOGY; PROCESS-BASED ECOSYSTEM MODEL; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84905248048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074014     Document Type: Article

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