Separating Drought Effects from Roof Artifacts on Ecosystem Processes in a Grassland Drought Experiment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Vogel, Anja ^a   Fester, Thomas ^b   Eisenhauer, Nico ^a   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^c   Schmid, Bernhard ^d   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^e   Weigelt, Alexandra ^a,f  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GRASSLAND; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; MEDICAGO; METABOLITE; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AIR; ARTIFACTS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POACEAE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84880970086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070997     Document Type: Article

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