Has the advancing onset of spring vegetation green-up slowed down or changed abruptly over the last three decades?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 621-631

  Wang, Xuhui ^a,b   Piao, Shilong ^a,c   Xu, Xiangtao ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^d   Macbean, Natasha ^d   Myneni, Ranga B ^e   Li, Laurent ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d DIF   (France)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Northern Hemisphere; Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo; Satellite data; Spring phenology; Trend change

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHENOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; SPRING (SEASON); TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

CANADA; SIBERIA;

EID: 84929032361     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12289     Document Type: Article

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