Nutrient supply enhanced the increase in intrinsic water-use efficiency of a temperate seminatural grassland in the last century

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3367-3376

  Köhler, Iris H ^a   MacDonald, Andy ^b   Schnyder, Hans ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric CO 2; C 3 grassland; Carbon isotope discrimination ( 13 ); Climate change; Functional group; Hay and herbage; Nitrogen; Park Grass Experiment; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

C3 PLANT; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POTASSIUM; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

POACEAE;

EID: 84867207921     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02781.x     Document Type: Article

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