Time-lag effects of global vegetation responses to climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3520-3531

  Wu, Donghai ^a   Zhao, Xiang ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b   Zhou, Tao ^a,c   Huang, Kaicheng ^a,c   Tang, Bijian ^a   Zhao, Wenqian ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; GIMMS3g NDVI; Precipitation; Solar radiation; Temperature; Time lag effects; Vegetation growth

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RESPONSE; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

RAIN; SNOW;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTOR;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RAIN; SNOW; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84942296240     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12945     Document Type: Article

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