World climate patterns in grassland and savanna and their relation to growing seasons
The climate at eleven IBP savanna or grassland study sites from five continents are described and principal components analysis is used to compare them. A multivariate linear discriminant function based on mean monthly precipitation, mean monthly temperature, latitude and altitude, is used to predic...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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South African National Biodiversity Institut
1977-11-01
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Series: | Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation |
Online Access: | https://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/view/1418 |