Litters of photosynthetically divergent grasses exhibit differential metabolic responses to warming and elevated CO2

Ecosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Suseela, Vidya ^a   Triebwasser Freese, Daniella ^a   Linscheid, Nora ^b   Morgan, Jack A ^c   Tharayil, Nishanth ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bouteloua gracilis; Climate change; Drought; Elevated CO2; Environmental stress; Infrared spectroscopy; Metabolomics; Pascopyrum smithii; Phenolic compounds; Prairie heating and CO2 enrichment (phace); Soil carbon; Warming

Indexed keywords

BOUTELOUA GRACILIS; PASCOPYRUM SMITHII; POACEAE;

EID: 84919648271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00028.1     Document Type: Article

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