Genetic components to belowground carbon fluxes in a riparian forest ecosystem: A common garden approach

New Phytologist

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 631-639

  Lojewski, Nathan R ^a   Fischer, Dylan G ^b   Bailey, Joseph K ^c   Schweitzer, Jennifer A ^c   Whitham, Thomas G ^a   Hart, Stephen C ^d  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon (C); CO 2; Common garden; Cottonwood; Genetics; Populus; Riparian forest

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

BIOMARKER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GARDEN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; OVERSTORY; RIPARIAN FOREST; SOIL CARBON;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CHIMERA; CROSS BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULUS; SOIL; TREE;

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHIMERA; CROSSES, GENETIC; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; POPULUS; SOIL; TREES;

POPULUS; POPULUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; POPULUS FREMONTII;

EID: 84863775386     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04185.x     Document Type: Article

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