The interactive effects of temperature and light on biological nitrogen fixation in boreal forests

New Phytologist

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 453-463

  Gundale, Michael J ^a   Nilsson, Madeleine ^a   Bansal, Sheel ^a   Jäderlund, Anders ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Climate change; Climate warming; Cyanobacteria; Ecosystem nitrogen modeling; Global change; Nitrogen fixation; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BOREAL FOREST; BRYOPHYTE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FOREST CANOPY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LATITUDE; MOSS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SHADING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOSS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRYOPHYTA; LIGHT; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CYANOBACTERIA; HYLOCOMIUM SPLENDENS; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI;

EID: 84858750285     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04071.x     Document Type: Article

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