Identifying climatic drivers of tropical forest dynamics

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 5583-5596

  Aubry Kientz, M ^a   Rossi, V ^b,c   Wagner, F ^b,d   Herault B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOREST DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

FRENCH GUIANA; PARACOU;

EID: 84943184297     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-5583-2015     Document Type: Article

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