Grassland growth in response to climate variability in the upper Indus basin, Pakistan

Climate

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 697-714

  Abbas, Sawaid ^a   Qamer, Faisal M ^b,c   Murthy, Manchiraju S R ^b   Tripathi, Nitin K ^a   Ning, Wu ^b,d   Sharma, Eklabya ^b   Ali, Ghaffar ^e  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Modis; Phenology; Rangelands

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029188868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22251154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cli3030697     Document Type: Article

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