Seasonally varied controls of climate and phenophase on terrestrial carbon dynamics: modeling eco-climate system state using Dynamical Process Networks

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 165-180

  Ruddell, Benjamin L ^a   Yu, Rong ^a   Kang, Minseok ^b   Childers, Daniel L ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Dynamical Process Network; Ecosystem modeling; Elasticity; Information theory; Phenophase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952716134     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0253-x     Document Type: Article

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