Changes in water relations for leaves exposed to a climate-warming manipulation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 115-123

  Loik, Michael E ^a   Harte, John ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia tridentata (Asteraceae); Climate change; Potentilia gracilis (Rosaceae); Relative water content; Sagebrush; Water potential

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ASTERACEAE; ERIGERON SPECIOSUS; FESTUCA THURBERI; HELIANTHELLA; POTENTILIA; POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA; POTENTILLA GRACILIS; RHODIOLA INTEGRIFOLIA; ROSACEAE; TRIDENTATA;

EID: 0030870752     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(96)01043-X     Document Type: Article

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