Ozone effects in a drier climate: Implications for stomatal fluxes of reduced stomatal sensitivity to soil drying in a typical grassland species

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 948-959

  Hayes, Felicity ^a   Wagg, Serena ^a   Mills, Gina ^a   Wilkinson, Sally ^b   Davies, William ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Background ozone; Climate change; Dactylis glomerata; Ozone flux; Soil moisture; Stomata; Stomatal conductance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GRASSLAND; OZONE; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

DACTYLIS; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS ACRIS;

EID: 84857138931     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02613.x     Document Type: Article

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