Changes in duration of reproductive phases and lagged phenological response to experimental climate warming

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-35

  Sherry, Rebecca A ^a   Zhou, Xuhui ^a   Gu, Shiliang ^a,b   Arnone III, John A ^c   Johnson, Dale W ^d   Schimel, David S ^e   Verburg, Paul S J ^c   Wallace, Linda L ^a   Luo, Yiqi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate warming; Flowering duration; Flowering phenology; Increased precipitation; Lagged effects; Lagged response

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959315812     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2011.557669     Document Type: Article

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