Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability

Nature

Volumn 531, Issue 7593, 2016, Pages 229-232

  Seddon, Alistair W R ^a   Macias Fauria, Marc ^b   Long, Peter R ^b   Benz, David ^b   Willis, Kathy J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRASSLAND; MODIS; RAINFOREST; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION; TUNDRA; VEGETATION INDEX;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC TUNDRA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; LEAF SENESCENCE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; TAIGA; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; TUNDRA; VEGETATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; ACCLIMATIZATION; ARCTIC; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RAIN FOREST; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TREE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ARCTIC; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMERICAS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RAINFOREST; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WATER;

EID: 84960844311     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16986     Document Type: Article

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