Plant diversity does not buffer drought effects on early-stage litter mass loss rates and microbial properties

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2795-2803

  Vogel, Anja ^a   Eisenhauer, Nico ^a   Weigelt, Alexandra ^a,b   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity loss; Climate change; Decomposition; Drought; Grassland; Litter mass loss; Soil processes; The Jena Experiment

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; DROUGHT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; LITTER; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; DROUGHT; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; LITTER MASS LOSS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL PROCESSES; THE JENA EXPERIMENT;

BIODIVERSITY LOSS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; DROUGHT; GRASSLAND; LITTER MASS LOSS; SOIL PROCESSES; THE JENA EXPERIMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DROUGHTS; GERMANY; PLANTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84881554785     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12225     Document Type: Article

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