CO 2 effects on the water budget of grassland microcosm communities
| Autor: | Barbara Mortimer, Nona R. Chiariello, Christopher B. Field, Christopher P. Lund |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
| Předmět: |
Global and Planetary Change
geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology biology Growing season Bromus respiratory system biology.organism_classification Grassland Agronomy Serpentine soil Evapotranspiration Environmental Chemistry Environmental science Ecosystem Microcosm General Environmental Science Transpiration |
| Zdroj: | Global Change Biology. 3:197-206 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2486 1354-1013 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2486.1997.t01-1-00096.x |
| Popis: | Experimental grassland ecosystems, in microcosms 0.2 m in diameter and with a 0.95 m soil column, varied in their responses to elevated partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) and altered moisture inputs. Ecosystems on moderately fertile sandstone soil and with a typical mix of moderately fast-growing sandstone species, responded to elevated pCO2 with decreases in mid-season evapotranspiration of nearly 50%. This pattern reversed at the end of the growing season, and sandstone ecosystems under elevated pCO2 continued active transpiration farther into the summer drought. The sandstone ecosystems appeared to convert mid-season water conservation into increased late-season growth. Effects of increased pCO2 on ecosystem evapotranspiration were much smaller in ecosystems with very infertile serpentine soil and a diverse mixture of slow-growing serpentine species. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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