Can complementarity in water use help to explain diversity-productivity relationships in experimental grassland plots?

Oecologia

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 351-361

  Verheyen, Kris ^a   Bulteel, Hugo ^b   Palmborg, Cecilia ^c   Olivié, Bert ^b   Nijs, Ivan ^d   Raes, Dirk ^b   Muys, Bart ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Canopy surface temperature; Ecosystem functioning; Evapotranspiration; Niche differentiation; Soil water balance

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CANOPY; COMPLEMENTARITY; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; NICHE; SOIL WATER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER BUDGET; WATER STRESS; WATER USE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SOIL; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; SOIL; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 43049140749     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-0998-x     Document Type: Article

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