Photosynthetic overcompensation under nocturnal warming enhances grassland carbon sequestration

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2700-2710

  Wan, Shiqiang ^a   Xia, Jianyang ^a,b   Liu, Weixing ^a,b   Niu, Shuli ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate; Carbon; China; Climate warming; Ecosystem; Photosynthesis; Respiration; Temperate steppe; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; GRASS; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SOIL; TIME;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POACEAE; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 69249204776     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2026.1     Document Type: Article

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