Articles | Volume 14, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4891-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4891-2017
Research article
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07 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 07 Nov 2017

Impacts of temperature extremes on European vegetation during the growing season

Lukas Baumbach, Jonatan F. Siegmund, Magdalena Mittermeier, and Reik V. Donner

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Open-source R package CoinCalc J. F. Siegmund https://github.com/JonatanSiegmund/CoinCalc

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Temperature extremes play a crucial role for vegetation growth and vitality in vast parts of the European continent. Here, we study the likelihood of simultaneous occurrences of extremes in daytime land surface temperatures and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for three main periods during the growing season. Our results reveal a particularly high vulnerability of croplands to temperature extremes, while other vegetation types are considerably less affected.
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