Plant responses to climatic extremes: Within-species variation equals among-species variation

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 449-464

  Malyshev, Andrey V ^a   Arfin Khan, Mohammed A S ^b,c   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^b   Steinbauer, Manuel J ^b   Henry, Hugh A L ^d   Jentsch, Anke ^b   Dengler, Jürgen ^b,f   Willner, Evelin ^e   Kreyling, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e Satellite Collections North   (Germany)

^f GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Extreme climatic events; Genetic diversity; Inter specific variation; Intraspecific variation; Niche models; Provenance

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT; FROST; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NICHE;

ARRHENATHERUM ELATIUS; POACEAE;

CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; NITROGEN;

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROUGHT; ECOTYPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT ROOT; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; ECOTYPE; GENETIC VARIATION; NITROGEN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84954372542     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13114     Document Type: Article

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