Nocturnal and seasonal patterns of carbon isotope composition of leaf dark-respired carbon dioxide differ among dominant species in a semiarid savanna

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 297-310

  Sun, Wei ^a,b   Resco, Víctor ^a,c   Williams, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Fundacion General del Medio Ambiente de Castilla La Mancha   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon 13; Respiratory apparent carbon 12 carbon 13 fractionation; Soil water availability

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DICOTYLEDON; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; GRASS; HERB; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; METABOLITE; MONSOON; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; PERENNIAL PLANT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPIRATION; SAVANNA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL WATER; SUBSTRATE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

CELTIS LAEVIGATA RETICULATA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS VELUTINA; SPOROBOLUS WRIGHTII; VIGUIERA DENTATA;

EID: 84984572899     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1643-z     Document Type: Article

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