Warming and elevated CO2 affect the relationship between seed mass, germinability and seedling growth in Austrodanthonia caespitosa, a dominant Australian grass

Global Change Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1633-1641

  Hovenden, Mark J ^a   Wills, Karen E ^a   Chaplin, Rebecca E ^b   Vander Schoor, Jacqueline K ^a   Williams, Amity L ^a   Osanai, Yui ^a   Newton, Paul C D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Elevated CO2; FACE; Germination; Global warming; Grassland; Seed

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GERMINATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASSLAND; GROWTH RESPONSE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO; SEED; SEED PRODUCTION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRODANTHONIA;

EID: 44849088821     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01597.x     Document Type: Article

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