Reduced early growing season freezing resistance in alpine treeline plants under elevated atmospheric CO2

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1057-1070

  Martin, Melissa ^a,b   Gavazov, Konstantin ^c   Körner, Christian ^b   Hättenschwiler, Stephan ^d   Rixen, Christian ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Elevated CO2; FACE; Freezing resistance; LT50; Temperature; Treeline

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FREEZING; GROWTH RESPONSE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PHENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREELINE; WARMING;

SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

AVENELLA; DESCHAMPSIA FLEXUOSA FLEXUOSA; EMPETRUM HERMAPHRODITUM; GENTIANA; GENTIANA PUNCTATA; HOMOGYNE ALPINA; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; LEONTODON HELVITICUS; MELAMPYRUM PRATENSE; PINUS UNCINATA; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS;

EID: 77149148111     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01987.x     Document Type: Article

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