Middle-Eastern plant communities tolerate 9 years of drought in a multi-site climate manipulation experiment

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tielbörger, Katja ^a   Bilton, Mark C ^a   Metz, Johannes ^a   Kigel, Jaime ^b   Holzapfel, Claus ^c   Lebrija Trejos, Edwin ^d   Konsens, Irit ^b   Parag, Hadas A ^a,c   Sternberg, Marcelo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFALL; TOLERANCE; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE EAST; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; TIME;

RAIN; SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MIDDLE EAST; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; RAIN; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84922988329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6102     Document Type: Article

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