The role of plant traits and their plasticity in the response of pasture grasses to nutrients and cutting frequency

Annals of Botany

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 957-965

  Da Silveira Pontes, Laíse ^a,b   Louault, Frédérique ^a   Carrère, Pascal ^a   Maire, Vincent ^a   Andueza, Donato ^b   Soussana, Jean François ^c  

^a French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

^b UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

^c INSTITUTO AGRONÔMICO DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

C3 grasses; Cutting; Grassland; Leaf traits; Nitrogen; Primary productivity; Species strategy; Trait plasticity

Indexed keywords

C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CELLULOSE; DRY MATTER; GRASS; LAND USE CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIGNIN; MONOCULTURE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PASTURE; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOREMEDIATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWER; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

POACEAE;

EID: 77953002110     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq066     Document Type: Article

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