Opposing plant community responses to warming with and without herbivores

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

Volumn 105, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 12353-12358

  Post, Eric ^a,b   Pedersen, Christian ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Global warming; Herbivory; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORE; MUSKOXEN; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINDEER; SHRUB; WARMING;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; EATING; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENLAND; MOTHS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; RUMINANTS;

BETULA NANA; OVIBOS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; SALIX; SALIX BEBBIANA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 50449105871     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802421105     Document Type: Article

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