Root Biomass Dynamics Under Experimental Warming and Doubled Precipitation in a Tallgrass Prairie

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 542-554

  Zhou, Xuhui ^a,b   Fei, Shenfeng ^b   Sherry, Rebecca ^b   Luo, Yiqi ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

drought; extreme climate; global change; grassland; growth; heat; mortality; root biomass

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT STRESS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; PHYTOMASS; PRAIRIE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROOT-SHOOT RATIO;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862803867     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9525-3     Document Type: Article

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