Persistence and production of perennial grasses under water deficits and extreme temperatures: Importance of intraspecific vs. interspecific variability

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3632-3646

  Poirier, Magalie ^a   Durand, Jean Louis ^b   Volaire, Florence ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b French Natl Inst Agr Res INRA   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dactylis glomerata L.; Drought survival; Festuca arundinacea (Schreb.); Frost survival; Grassland; Heat wave; Tiller mortality

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASS; GRASSLAND; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MORTALITY; PERENNIAL PLANT; PERSISTENCE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER STRESS;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

DACTYLIS; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; POACEAE;

EID: 84868212774     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02800.x     Document Type: Article

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