Probing the past 30-year phenology trend of US deciduous forests

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 4693-4709

  Yue, X ^a   Unger, N ^a   Keenan, T F ^b   Zhang, X ^c   Vogel, C S ^d  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; PHOTOPERIOD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938726481     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-4693-2015     Document Type: Article

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