Long-term resistance to simulated climate change in an infertile grassland

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 10028-10032

  Grime, J Philip ^a   Fridley, Jason D ^a,b   Askew, Andrew P ^a   Thompson, Ken ^a   Hodgson, John G ^c   Bennett, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Peak Science and Environment   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcareous grassland; Climate manipulation; Global change; Multivariate analysis; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; GRASS; GRASSLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; UNITED KINGDOM; WINTER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NATURAL DISASTERS; POACEAE; RAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAREX; POACEAE;

EID: 48249085303     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711567105     Document Type: Article

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