Influence of warming on soil water potential controls seedling mortality in perennial but not annual species in a temperate grassland

New Phytologist

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 143-152

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate change and global warming; Elevated CO2; Emergence; Establishment; Free air CO2 enrichment (FACE); Grassland; Seedling recruitment; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; RAIN; WATER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EMERGENCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; PERENNIAL PLANT; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; SURVIVORSHIP; WARMING;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POACEAE; SEEDLING; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LONGEVITY; PLANTS; POACEAE; RAIN; SEEDLING; SOIL; TASMANIA; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 51249110572     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02563.x     Document Type: Article

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