Global patterns of drought recovery

Nature

Volumn 548, Issue 7666, 2017, Pages 202-205

  Schwalm, Christopher R ^a,b   Anderegg, William R L ^c   Michalak, Anna M ^d   Fisher, Joshua B ^e   Biondi, Franco ^f   Koch, George ^b   Litvak, Marcy ^g   Ogle, Kiona ^h   Shaw, John D ⁱ   Wolf, Adam ^j   Huntzinger, Deborah N ^b   Schaefer, Kevin ^k   Cook, Robert ^l   Wei, Yaxing ^l   Fang, Yuanyuan ^d   Hayes, Daniel ^m   Huang, Maoyi ⁿ   Jain, Atul ^o   Tian, Hanqin ^p  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^h Northern Arizona University   (United States)

ⁱ ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^j Arable Labs Inc   (United States)

^k National Snow and Ice Data Center   (United States)

^l OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

ⁿ PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^p AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; DEGRADATION; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOIL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TROPIC CLIMATE; WILDFIRE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; RAIN;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INTERNATIONALITY; RAIN; SOIL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WILDFIRES;

EID: 85027349887     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature23021     Document Type: Article

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