Decreasing Net Primary Production in forest and shrub vegetation across southwest Australia

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 66, Issue , 2016, Pages 10-19

  Brouwers, Niels Christiaan ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a,b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hot spot; Climate change; Dynamic Land Cover Dataset; Ecological change indicator; Fire; GPP; Mediterranean; MODIS; NPP; Rate of change; Theil Sen; Time series analysis; Tree decline; Western Australia; Woodland

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; FORESTRY; HEALTH; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGICAL CHANGES; HOT SPOT; LAND COVER; MEDITERRANEAN; MODIS; RATE OF CHANGE; THEIL SEN; TREE DECLINE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WOODLAND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MODIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; POPULATION DECLINE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUB; SHRUBLAND; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84957025240     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.01.010     Document Type: Article

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