Seasonal divergence in the interannual responses of Northern Hemisphere vegetation activity to variations in diurnal climate

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wu, Xiuchen ^a,b   Liu, Hongyan ^c   Li, Xiaoyan ^a,b   Liang, Eryuan ^d   Beck, Pieter S A ^e   Huang, Yongmei ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES JCGCS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PLANT; SEASON;

CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; PLANTS; SEASONS;

EID: 84954137846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19000     Document Type: Article

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