Increased sensitivity to climate change in disturbed ecosystems

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kroël Dulay, György ^a   Ransijn, Johannes ^b   Schmidt, Inger Kappel ^b   Beier, Claus ^c   De Angelis, Paolo ^d   De Dato, Giovanbattista ^d   Dukes, Jeffrey S ^e,f   Emmett, Bridget ^g   Estiarte, Marc ^h,i   Garadnai, János ^a   Kongstad, Jane ^b   Kovács Láng, Edit ^a   Larsen, Klaus Steenberg ^b   Liberati, Dario ^d   Ogaya, Romà ^h,i   Riis Nielsen, Torben ^b   Smith, Andrew R ^j   Sowerby, Alwyn ^g   Tietema, Albert ^k   Penuelas, Josep ^h,i  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

ⁱ CREAF   (Spain)

^j BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; SCRUB; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION; WARMING; BIODIVERSITY; EUROPE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PLANT;

EUROPE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANTS;

EID: 84925738686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7682     Document Type: Article

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