Drought tolerance in two perennial bunchgrasses used for restoration in the Intermountain West, USA

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 461-470

  Mukherjee, Jayanti Ray ^a,b   Jones, Thomas A ^c   Adler, Peter B ^a   Monaco, Thomas A ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA ARS Forage and Range Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bluebunch wheatgrass; Precipitation use efficiency; Snake River wheatgrass; Specific leaf area; Specific root length

Indexed keywords

C3 PLANT; DROUGHT STRESS; GRASS; LEAF AREA; MORPHOLOGY; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PHYTOMASS; RANGELAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

INTERMOUNTAIN WEST;

ELYMUS; ELYMUS WAWAWAIENSIS; PSEUDOROEGNERIA SPICATA; TRITICEAE;

EID: 79952043411     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-010-9837-3     Document Type: Article

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