Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant diversity in New England salt marshes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 842-848

  Gedan, Keryn B ^a   Bertness, Mark D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecosystem warming experiment; Forb panne; Open top chamber; Spartina patens; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; PREDICTION; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WARMING; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NEW ENGLAND; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; WETLANDS;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 67649983129     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01337.x     Document Type: Article

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