Tracking Soil Temperature and Moisture in a Multi-Factor Climate Experiment in Temperate Grassland: Do Climate Manipulation Methods Produce their Intended Effects?

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 489-502

  Carlyle, Cameron N ^a,b   Fraser, Lauchlan H ^b   Turkington, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; clipping; disturbance; open top chamber; rainout shelter; soil volumetric water content

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIPPING; DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; GRASSLAND SOIL; OPEN-TOP CHAMBER; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TRACKING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 79953192099     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9425-y     Document Type: Article

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