Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests: Similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1097-1110

  Rowland, L ^a   Harper, A ^b   Christoffersen, B O ^a,c   Galbraith, D R ^d   Imbuzeiro, H M A ^e   Powell, T L ^f   Doughty, C ^g   Levine, N M ^h   Malhi, Y ^g   Saleska, S R ^c   Moorcroft, P R ^f   Meir, P ^a,i   Williams, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LEAF AREA INDEX; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PRODUCTIVITY; RAINFOREST; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84928615368     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-1097-2015     Document Type: Article

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