Disentangling root responses to climate change in a semiarid grassland

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 699-711

  Carrillo, Yolima ^a,b,e   Dijkstra, Feike A ^b   LeCain, Dan ^c   Morgan, Jack A ^c   Blumenthal, Dana ^c   Waldron, Sarah ^d   Pendall, Elise ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Death; Decomposition; Morphology; Production; Roots; Turnover; Warming

Indexed keywords

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GRASSLAND; IRRIGATION; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; ROOT; SEMIARID REGION;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; SOIL;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; SOIL;

EID: 84901195163     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2912-z     Document Type: Article

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