Warming reduces carbon losses from grassland exposed to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Pendall, Elise ^a   Heisler White, Jana L ^a,b   Williams, David G ^a   Dijkstra, Feike A ^b,c   Carrillo, Yolima ^a,c   Morgan, Jack A ^b   LeCain, Daniel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; RAIN; SOIL;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE TRANSPORT; CARBON LOSS; CARBON METABOLISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; GRASSLAND; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRECIPITATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; WARMING; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMIDITY; METABOLISM; POACEAE; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMIDITY; POACEAE; RAIN; SOIL; WYOMING;

EID: 84887201086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071921     Document Type: Article

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