Future changes of the terrestrial ecosystem based on a dynamic vegetation model driven with RCP8.5 climate projections from 19 GCMs

Climatic Change

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 257-271

  Yu, Miao ^a,b   Wang, Guiling ^a   Parr, Dana ^a   Ahmed, Kazi Farzan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DECIDUOUS TREES AND SHRUBS; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; DYNAMIC VEGETATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84939880581     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1249-2     Document Type: Article

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