Consistent proportional increments in responses of belowground net primary productivity to long-term warming and clipping at various soil depths in a tallgrass prairie

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1045-1054

  Xu, Xia ^a   Luo, Yiqi ^a   Shi, Zheng ^a   Zhou, Xuhui ^a,b   Li, Dejun ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Belowground net primary productivity; Clipping; Soil depth; Tallgrass prairie; Warming

Indexed keywords

GRASS; LAND USE CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRAIRIE; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROFILE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROCLIMATE; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MICROCLIMATE; OKLAHOMA; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84897632794     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2828-z     Document Type: Article

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