Direct effects dominate responses to climate perturbations in grassland plant communities

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chu, Chengjin ^a,b   Kleinhesselink, Andrew R ^b   Havstad, Kris M ^c   McClaran, Mitchel P ^d   Peters, Debra P ^c   Vermeire, Lance T ^e   Wei, Haiyan ^d   Adler, Peter B ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FORECASTING METHOD; GRASSLAND; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; GRASSLAND; MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPECIES; METABOLISM; PLANT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASSLAND; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 84976465555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11766     Document Type: Article

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