Elevated [CO2] and forest vegetation: More a water issue than a carbon issue?

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 694-702

  Holtum, Joseph A M ^a   Winter, Klaus ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

carbon sequestration; climate change; enrichment); evapotranspiration; FACE (free air CO2; water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; ANTHROPOCENE; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CARBON CONTENT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM LEVELS; ELEVATED CO; ENRICHMENT); FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST STRUCTURE; FOREST VEGETATION; LONG TERM; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TROPICAL FOREST; WATER FLUX; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; YOUNG TREES;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; SOIL WATER; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TRANSPIRATION; TROPICAL FOREST; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

BOD; CARBON; CHELATION; EVAPORATION; FORESTRY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PLANTS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77955081441     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP10001     Document Type: Review

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