Constraints to nitrogen acquisition of terrestrial plants under elevated CO2

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3152-3168

  Feng, Zhaozhong ^a,b   Rütting, Tobias ^a   Pleijel, Håkan ^a   Wallin, Göran ^a   Reich, Peter B ^c,d   Kammann, Claudia I ^e   Newton, Paul C D ^f   Kobayashi, Kazuhiko ^g   Luo, Yunjian ^h   Uddling, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Crops; Diversity; FACE; Fertilization; Forest; Grassland; Growth dilution; Meta analysis; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; GROWTH; META-ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; METABOLISM; PLANT; POACEAE;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; NITROGEN; PLANTS; POACEAE;

EID: 84937519344     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12938     Document Type: Article

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