A global study of GPP focusing on light-use efficiency in a random forest regression model

Ecosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Wei, Suhua ^a,b   Yi, Chuixiang ^a,b   Fang, Wei ^a   Hendrey, George ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biome; Enhanced vegetation index (EVI); FLUXNET; Gross primary production (GPP); Light use efficiency (LUE); Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR); Precipitation; Random forest regression (RFR); Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019961851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1724     Document Type: Article

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