Ecological implications of plants' ability to tell the time

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 583-592

  Resco, Víctor ^a,c   Hartwell, James ^b   Hall, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biosphere atmosphere interactions; Circadian clock; Gas exchange; Global change; Phenology; Plant interactions; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; BIOSPHERE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GAS EXCHANGE; PHENOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; REVIEW; TIME;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; TIME;

EID: 65649087813     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01295.x     Document Type: Review

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