Responses in leaf functional traits and resource allocation of a dominant alpine sedge (Kobresia pygmaea) to climate warming in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau permafrost region

Plant and Soil

Volumn 349, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 377-387

  Yang, Yan ^a,c   Wang, Genxu ^a   Klanderud, Kari ^b,d   Yang, Liudong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow; Leaf mass (LMA); Nitrogen; Open top chamber

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLOBAL WARMING; MEADOW; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; OPEN-TOP CHAMBER; PERMAFROST; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEDGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

KOBRESIA PYGMAEA;

EID: 82555172455     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0891-y     Document Type: Article

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