Sensitivity of three grassland communities to simulated extreme temperature and rainfall events

Global Change Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 671-684

  White, Todd A ^a   Campbell, Bruce D ^a   Kemp, Peter D ^b   Hunt, Chris L ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

C3; C4; Diversity; Extreme climatic events; Global climate change; Stability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EXTREME EVENT; GRASSLAND; RAINFALL; WARMING;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033890144     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00344.x     Document Type: Article

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