Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7157, 2007, Pages 1037-1041

  Betts, Richard A ^a   Boucher, Olivier ^a   Collins, Matthew ^a   Cox, Peter M ^a,b   Falloon, Peter D ^a   Gedney, Nicola ^a   Hemming, Deborah L ^a   Huntingford, Chris ^c   Jones, Chris D ^a   Sexton, David M H ^a   Webb, Mark J ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FRESH WATER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; RUNOFF; TRANSPIRATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NONHUMAN; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEATING; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 34548295741     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06045     Document Type: Article

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