Endurance of larch forest ecosystems in eastern Siberia under warming trends

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 5690-5704

  Sato, Hisashi ^a   Kobayashi, Hideki ^a   Iwahana, Go ^b   Ohta, Takeshi ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; land surface model; larch forests; permafrost; SEIB DGVM; thermo hydrology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982106608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2285     Document Type: Article

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