Acclimation of Foliar Respiration and Photosynthesis in Response to Experimental Warming in a Temperate Steppe in Northern China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Chi, Yonggang ^a,b   Xu, Ming ^a,c   Shen, Ruichang ^a,b   Yang, Qingpeng ^a,d   Huang, Bingru ^c   Wan, Shiqiang ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^e HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BREATHING RATE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ECOSYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STEPPE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WARMING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CELL RESPIRATION; CHINA; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POACEAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84874077987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056482     Document Type: Article

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