Effects of enhanced nitrogen inputs and climate warming on a forest understorey plant assessed by transplant experiments along a latitudinal gradient

Plant Ecology

Volumn 215, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 899-910

  Maes, Sybryn L ^a   De Frenne, Pieter ^a   Brunet, Jörg ^b   de la Peña, Eduardo ^a   Chabrerie, Olivier ^c   Cousins, Sara A O ^d   Decocq, Guillaume ^c   Diekmann, Martin ^e   Gruwez, Robert ^a   Hermy, Martin ^f   Kolb, Annette ^e   Verheyen, Kris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Climate change; Common garden experiment; Deciduous forest; Forest understorey; Latitude; Local adaptation; Mycorrhiza; Nitrogen deposition

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COLONIZATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST; GLOBAL WARMING; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MYCORRHIZA; NITROGEN; PLANT; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

MILIUM EFFUSUM;

EID: 84906942323     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-014-0341-z     Document Type: Article

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