Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Piao, Shilong ^a,b,c   Nan, Huijuan ^b   Huntingford, Chris ^d   Ciais, Philippe ^e   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^f   Sitch, Stephen ^f   Peng, Shushi ^b,e   Ahlström, Anders ^g   Canadell, Josep G ^h   Cong, Nan ^a   Levis, Sam ⁱ   Levy, Peter E ^d   Liu, Lingli ^j   Lomas, Mark R ^k   Mao, Jiafu ^l   Myneni, Ranga B ^m   Peylin, Philippe ^e   Poulter, Ben ^e   Shi, Xiaoying ^l   Yin, Guodong ^b   Viovy, Nicolas ^e   Wang, Tao ^a,e   Wang, Xuhui ^b   Zaehle, Soenke ⁿ   Zeng, Ning ^o   Zeng, Zhenzhong ^b   Chen, Anping ^p   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h CSIRO   (Australia)

ⁱ NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^j INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^l OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^m BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^o Bldg 142   (United States)

^p PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NDVI; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARCTIC; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DROUGHT; GRASS; GROWING SEASON; MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SHRUB; TUNDRA; VEGETATION; WARMING; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; PROCEDURES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASON; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

SOIL;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL WARMING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; POACEAE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84927133050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6018     Document Type: Article

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