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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: R. Kirk Steinhorst, J. Morris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: South African National Biodiversity Institut 1977-11-01
Series:Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation
Online Access:https://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/view/1418