Direct and indirect drivers of plant diversity responses to climate and clipping across northern temperate grassland

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3093-3103

  White, Shannon R ^a   Bork, Edward W ^a   Cahill, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Defoliation; Evenness; Global warming; Grazing; Land Use; Manipulative experiment; Multisite; Rangeland; Richness; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFOLIATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGELAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84911877030     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0144.1     Document Type: Article

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