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- Title
Urgent need for a common metric to make precipitation manipulation experiments comparable.
- Authors
Vicca, S.; Gilgen, A. K.; Camino Serrano, M.; Dreesen, F. E.; Dukes, J. S.; Estiarte, M.; Gray, S. B.; Guidolotti, G.; Hoeppner, S. S.; Leakey, A. D. B.; Ogaya, R.; Ort, D. R.; Ostrogovic, M. Z.; Rambal, S.; Sardans, J.; Schmitt, M.; Siebers, M.; van der Linden, L.; van Straaten, O.; Granier, A.
- Abstract
The article explores the plant responses to altered precipitation among ecosystems. It mentions the need to use a more ecologically meaningful metric to describe the actual treatment to plants to the consequences of altered precipitation patterns. It notes that the actual treatment should reflect the drought stress duration and intensity as experienced by the biota. It also emphasizes that the differences in ecosystem responses remain attributable to differences in the actual treatment.
- Subjects
PLANT adaptation; PLANT defenses; PRECIPITATION variability; DROUGHTS; BIOTIC communities
- Publication
New Phytologist, 2012, Vol 195, Issue 3, p518
- ISSN
0028-646X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04224.x