Physiological and growth responses of arctic plants to a field experiment simulating climatic change

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 822-840

  Chapin III, F Stuart ^a   Shaver, Gaius R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climatic change; Light; Nutrients; Phenology; Photosynthesis; Productivity; Temperature; Tundra

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000792201     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265504     Document Type: Article

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