Impact of industrial-age climate change on the relationship between water uptake and tissue nitrogen in eucalypt seedlings

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 201-212

  Sherwin, Gyro L ^a   George, Laurel ^b   Kannangara, Kamali ^b   Tissue, David T ^a   Ghannoum, Oula ^a  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

biomass; Eucalyptus saligna; transpiration; water use

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GRAVIMETRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHYTOMASS; SEEDLING; SHRUB; TRANSPIRATION; WATER UPTAKE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84873923158     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP12130     Document Type: Article

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