A trade-off between nitrogen uptake and use increases responsiveness to elevated CO2 in infrequently cut mixed C3 grasses

New Phytologist

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 217-230

  Soussana, Jean Francois ^a   Teyssonneyre, Florence ^a   Picon Cochard, Catherine ^a   Dawson, Lorna ^b  

^a French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide (CO2); Climate change; Competition; Grassland; N cycle; N productivity; Nitrogen use efficiency

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

C3 PLANT; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; POACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FESTUCA; HOLCUS; HOLCUS LANATUS; LOLIUM PERENNE; POACEAE; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS;

EID: 15944372872     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01332.x     Document Type: Article

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