Leaf and ecosystem response to soil water availability in mountain grasslands

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1731-1740

  Brilli, Federico ^a   Hörtnagl, Lukas ^b   Hammerle, Albin ^b,d   Haslwanter, Alois ^b   Hansel, Armin ^b   Loreto, Francesco ^c   Wohlfahrt, Georg ^b  

^a IONICON Analytik GmbH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Evapotranspiration; Montane ecosystem; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASS; GRASSLAND; LABORATORY METHOD; LEAF; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SOIL WATER; WARMING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER CONTENT; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER RESOURCE;

ALPS;

EID: 80054950116     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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