Evidence of enhanced freezing damage in treeline plants during six years of CO 2 enrichment and soil warming

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1532-1543

  Rixen, Christian ^a   Dawes, Melissa A ^a,b   Wipf, Sonja ^a   Hagedorn, Frank ^c  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIEBACK; FREEZING; GROWTH RATE; PHENOLOGY; SHRUB; SNOWMELT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TREELINE; VULNERABILITY;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EMPETRUM HERMAPHRODITUM; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS;

EID: 84866181278     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.20031.x     Document Type: Article

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