Climate warming and biomass accumulation of terrestrial plants: A meta-analysis

New Phytologist

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 187-198

  Lin, Delu ^a,b   Xia, Jianyang ^a,b   Wan, Shiqiang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Latitude; Plant functional types; Plant growth; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; LATITUDE; META-ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; PHYTOMASS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WARMING; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; META ANALYSIS; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOMASS; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANTS; RAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956281184     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03347.x     Document Type: Article

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