Linking water uptake with rooting patterns in grassland species

Oecologia

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 261-272

  Nippert, Jesse B ^b   Knapp, Alan K ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C3 plants; C4 plants; Mixing model; Stable oxygen isotope ratio; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

RAIN; WATER;

COEXISTENCE; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWING SEASON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; PRAIRIE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; ROOTING; SOIL WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; CEANOTHUS; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LESPEDEZA; METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; SOIL; UNITED STATES; VERNONIA;

CEANOTHUS; ECOSYSTEM; KANSAS; LESPEDEZA; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; RAIN; SOIL; VERNONIA; WATER;

KANSAS; KONZA PRAIRIE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE;

EID: 34547748892     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0745-8     Document Type: Article

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