Low soil temperature inhibits the effect of high nutrient supply on photosynthetic response to elevated carbon dioxide concentration in white birch seedlings

Tree Physiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 234-243

  Ambebe, Titus F ^a   Dang, Qing Lai ^a   Li, Junlin ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Betula papyrifera Marsh.; Boreal forest; CO 2 Tsoil nutrient interaction; CO2 enrichment; Gas exchange; Global environmental change

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON DIOXIDE; DECIDUOUS TREE; GAS EXCHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; INHIBITION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POTASSIUM; SEEDLING; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TRANSPIRATION; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; BIRCH; COLD; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLANT LEAF; SEEDLING; SOIL;

BETULA; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLD TEMPERATURE; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANT LEAVES; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEEDLING; SOIL;

BETULA PAPYRIFERA; BETULA PENDULA;

EID: 76349122963     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpp109     Document Type: Article

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