Grassland responses to three years of elevated temperature, CO 2, precipitation, and N deposition

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 585-604

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

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual grassland; Climate change; Community composition; Diversity; Elevated CO2; Functional groups; Global warming; Nitrogen deposition; Precipitation; Productivity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRASSLAND; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

POACEAE;

EID: 0347531500     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-4053     Document Type: Article

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