Scaling nitrogen and carbon interactions: What are the consequences of biological buffering?

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 2839-2850

  Weston, David J ^a   Rogers, Alistair ^b   Tschaplinski, Timothy J ^a   Gunter, Lee E ^a   Jawdy, Sara A ^a   Engle, Nancy L ^a   Heady, Lindsey E ^b   Tuskan, Gerald A ^a   Wullschleger, Stan D ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffering; Carbon; Ecological genomics; Networks; Nitrogen; Robustness; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84937638565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1565     Document Type: Article

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