Elevated CO2 maintains grassland net carbon uptake under a future heat and drought extreme

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 6224-6229

  Roy, Jacques ^a   Picon Cochard, Catherine ^b   Augusti, Angela ^b,c   Benot, Marie Lise ^b,d   Thiery, Lionel ^b   Darsonville, Olivier ^b   Landais, Damien ^a   Piel, Clément ^a   Defossez, Marc ^a   Devidal, Sébastien ^a   Escape, Christophe ^a   Ravel, Olivier ^a   Fromin, Nathalie ^e   Volaire, Florence ^e,f   Milcu, Alexandru ^a,e   Bahn, Michael ^g   Soussana, Jean François ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^f CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon fluxes; Climate change; Elevated CO2; Extreme events; Grassland ecosystem

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; SOIL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; HEAT; NITROGEN UPTAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE VARIABLE; ROOT GROWTH; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WATER FLOW; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; SOIL;

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; GRASSLAND; HOT TEMPERATURE; PLANT LEAVES; SOIL;

EID: 84973115928     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1524527113     Document Type: Article

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