Warming and free-air CO2 enrichment alter demographics in four co-occurring grassland species

New Phytologist

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 365-374

  Williams, Amity L ^a   Wills, Karen E ^a   Janes, Jasmine K ^a   Vander Schoor, Jacqueline K ^a   Newton, Paul C D ^b   Hovenden, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate change; Demography; Elevated CO2; Free air CO2 enrichment; Global warming; Grassland; Life table response experiment; Population matrix models

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASSLAND; LIFE CYCLE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; SEED PRODUCTION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; WEED;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TASMANIA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRODANTHONIA; HYPOCHAERIS RADICATA; LEONTODON TARAXACOIDES; THEMEDA TRIANDRA;

EID: 34748813777     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02170.x     Document Type: Article

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