Spring temperature change and its implication in the change of vegetation growth in North America from 1982 to 2006

Wang, Xuhui; Piao, Shilong; Ciais, Philippe; Li, Junsheng; Friedlingstein, Pierre; D. Koven, Charles; Chen, Anping

doi:10.1073/pnas.1014425108

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Spring temperature change and its implication in the change of vegetation growth in North America from 1982 to 2006

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Jan 10, 2011

Authors:

Xuhui Wang

Shilong Piao

Philippe Ciais

Abstract

Understanding how vegetation growth responds to climate change is a critical requirement for projecting future ecosystem dynamics. Parts of North America (NA) have experienced a spring cooling trend over the last three decades, but little is known about the response of vegetation growth to this chan...

Subject

Vegetation (pathology)

Spring (device)

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

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