Mechanisms of grass response in grasslands and shrublands during dry or wet periods

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1323-1334

  Peters, Debra P C ^a,b   Yao, Jin ^a   Browning, Dawn ^a,b   Rango, Albert ^a,b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bouteloua eriopoda; Demographic processes; Grasslands; Plant soil water feedbacks; Sporobolus flexuosus

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRASSLAND; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHENOLOGY; RAINFALL; SHRUBLAND; SOIL WATER; TRANSPIRATION;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT;

RAIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; SEASON; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE; DROUGHTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW MEXICO; POACEAE; RAIN; SEASONS; SEEDS; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 84896304608     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2837-y     Document Type: Article

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