Improvement of global litter turnover rate predictions using a Bayesian MCMC approach

Ecosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Hararuk, Oleksandra ^a   Luo, Yiqi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon dynamics; Model calibration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986581751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00092.1     Document Type: Article

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