Productivity responses to altered rainfall patterns in a C 4-dominated grassland

Oecologia

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 245-251

  Fay, Philip A ^a,b   Carlisle, Jonathan D ^a   Knapp, Alan K ^a   Blair, John M ^a   Collins, Scott L ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Konza Prairie; Net primary productivity; Precipitation; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

RAIN; WATER;

C4 PLANT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRASSLAND; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RAINFALL;

ANDROPOGON; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL;

ANDROPOGON; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SOIL; WATER;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANDROPOGON; ANDROPOGON GERARDII; POACEAE;

EID: 0142091367     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1331-3     Document Type: Article

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