Interannual variability in responses of belowground net primary productivity (NPP) and NPP partitioning to long-term warming and clipping in a tallgrass prairie

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1648-1656

  Xu, Xia ^a   Niu, Shuli ^a   Sherry, Rebecca A ^a   Zhou, Xuhui ^a,b   Zhou, Jizhong ^a   Luo, Yiqi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Belowground net primary productivity; Clipping; NPP partitioning; Tallgrass prairie; Warming; Water availability

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BELOWGROUND PRODUCTION; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; LAND USE CHANGE; LIMITING FACTOR; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PARTITIONING; PRAIRIE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WARMING; WATER AVAILABILITY;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862783285     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02651.x     Document Type: Article

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