Grassland responses to global environmental changes suppressed by elevated CO2

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5600, 2002, Pages 1987-1990

  Shaw, M Rebecca ^a,c   Zavaleta, Erika S ^a,b,d   Chiariello, Nona R ^b   Cleland, Elsa E ^a,b   Mooney, Harold A ^b   Field, Christopher B ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEMS; NITROGEN; VEGETATION;

NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION (NPP);

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; CALIFORNIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GERANIACEAE; POACEAE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037032814     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1075312     Document Type: Article

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47. Thanks to all of the people who helped with the JRGCE: building, harvesting, counting, and sorting. Thanks also to Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Supported by grants from NSF, the Morgan Family Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington. M.R.S. was supported by a Hollaender Postdoctoral Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy. E.S.Z. and E.E.C. received graduate support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship Program, the Switzer Foundation, and the A. W. Mellon Foundation. This is Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Global Ecology. Publication number 1.