'Effective growing days': A simple predictive model of the response of herbaceous plant growth in a Mediterranean ecosystem to variation in rainfall and phosphorus availability

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 137-148

  Henkin, Zalmen ^a   Seligman, No'am G ^a   Kafkafi, Uzi ^b   Noy Meir, Imanuel ^b  

^a MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annual species; Biomass production; Phosphorus deficiency; Plant growth modelling; Soil water balance

Indexed keywords

PLANT GROWTH;

EFFECTIVE GROWING DAY; GROWTH; MODELLING; PHOSPHORUS; RAINFALL;

ISRAEL, GALILEE;

SARCOPOTERIUM SPINOSUM;

EID: 0031934398     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00243.x     Document Type: Article

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