Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 166-171

  Huang, Jianping ^a   Yu, Haipeng ^a   Guan, Xiaodan ^a   Wang, Guoyin ^a   Guo, Ruixia ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DESERTIFICATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND SURFACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WARMING;

EID: 84955569599     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2837     Document Type: Article

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