No increase in alpine snowbed productivity in response to experimental lengthening of the growing season

Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 755-764

  Baptist, F ^a   Flahaut, C ^a   Streb, P ^b   Choler, P ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Alopecurus gerardi; Alpine tundra; Carex foetida; Early frost; Growing season length; Poa alpina

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOMINANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROST; GRASS; GROWING SEASON; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYTOMASS; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL REGIME; TUNDRA;

ALOPECURUS; CAREX FOETIDA; POA; POA ALPINA;

SNOW;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SEASON;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; SEASONS; SNOW;

EID: 78049370031     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: 14388677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2009.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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