Potassium: A neglected nutrient in global change

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 261-275

  Sardans, Jordi ^a,b   Peñuelas, Josep ^a,b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Ecological stoichiometry; Eutrophication; Global change; Invasiveness; N:K; Plant growth

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RESPONSE; NUTRIENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POTASSIUM; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; STOICHIOMETRY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84922505899     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12259     Document Type: Review

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