Thermal acclimation of shoot respiration in an Arctic woody plant species subjected to 22 years of warming and altered nutrient supply

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2618-2630

  Heskel, Mary A ^a   Greaves, Heather E ^b   Turnbull, Matthew H ^c   O'Sullivan, Odhran S ^a   Shaver, Gaius R ^d   Griffin, Kevin L ^e   Atkin, Owen K ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic tundra; Betula nana; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Stems

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON CYCLE; GLOBAL WARMING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; RESPIRATION; SHOOT; SOIL NUTRIENT; TUNDRA; WOODY PLANT;

ALASKA; TOOLIK LAKE; UNITED STATES;

BETULA NANA;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARCTIC; BIRCH; CELL RESPIRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALASKA; ARCTIC REGIONS; BETULA; CELL RESPIRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84903789261     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12544     Document Type: Article

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