Investigation of North American vegetation variability under recent climate: A study using the SSiB4/TRIFFID biophysical/dynamic vegetation model

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1300-1321

  Zhang, Zhengqiu ^a,b,c   Xue, Yongkang ^a   MacDonald, Glen ^a   Cox, Peter M ^d   Collatz, G James ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FRACTIONATION; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84925122022     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021963     Document Type: Article

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