Effects of temperature increase and grazing on stomatal density and length of four alpine Kobresia meadow species, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6961-6969

  Zhang, Lirong ^a   Niu, Haishan ^a   Wang, Sniping ^b   Li, Yingnian ^b   Zhao, Xinquan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow; Global warming; Grazing; Potential conductance index; Stomatal density; Stomatal length

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CANOPY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL ORGANELLE; DROUGHT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL WARMING; GRAZING; LIMITING FACTOR; LIVESTOCK; MEADOW; MICROSCOPY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ELYMUS; ELYMUS NUTANS; GENTIANA; GENTIANA STRAMINEA; KOBRESIA; KOBRESIA HUMILIS; OVIS ARIES; THALICTRUM;

EID: 79952679415     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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