Climate moderates release from nutrient limitation in natural annual plant communities

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 549-561

  Dwyer, John M ^a,b   Hobbs, Richard J ^c   Wainwright, Claire E ^a   Mayfield, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Climate change; Eutrophication; Functional traits; Species invasions; York gum woodlands

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84925691908     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12277     Document Type: Article

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