Carbon stock and its responses to climate change in Central Asia

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1951-1967

  Li, Chaofan ^a,b,c   Zhang, Chi ^a,c   Luo, Geping ^a,c   Chen, Xi ^a,c   Maisupova, Bagila ^d   Madaminov, Abdullo A ^e   Han, Qifei ^f   Djenbaev, Bekmamat M ^g  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Ministries of Agriculture   (Kazakhstan)

^e Department for Ecology and Plants Resources Institute of Botany Plant Physiology and Genetic Academy of Science Republic of Tajikistan   (Tajikistan)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^g Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences   (Kyrgyzstan)

Author keywords

Arid ecosystem model; Carbon stock; Central Asia; Climate change; Dryland; Temperate desert

Indexed keywords

CARBON; SOIL;

ASIA; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ASIA, CENTRAL; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL;

EID: 84927959219     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12846     Document Type: Article

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