Tips for the next phase of winter climate-change study in plant–soil systems. Kobayashi, M. Ecological Research, July, 2014. 00001
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Winter climate, characterized by cold temperatures and snowfall, influences organismal physiology, which is closely related to individual survival, growth, and reproduction (Sakai and Larcher 1987). Therefore, winter climate change can have significant effects on individual and population behaviors and their related biogeochemical cycles (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions from soil microbes (Yanai et al. 2014) and nitrogen retention by plant uptake (Campbell et al. 2014)). However, the consequences of winter climate change are less well understood than those of summer time change (Kreyling 2010). This information gap may exist partly because the effect-process of winter climate change on ecosystems is more complex than that in summer. For instance, winter warming influences organisms not only via the increase in air temperature itself but also via changes (both increases and decreases) in snowfall, which has multiple functions, such as insulation and water source (Groffman et al. 2001). B
@article{kobayashi_tips_2014,
	title = {Tips for the next phase of winter climate-change study in plant–soil systems},
	issn = {0912-3814, 1440-1703},
	url = {http://link.springer.com.ludwig.lub.lu.se/article/10.1007/s11284-014-1171-0},
	doi = {10.1007/s11284-014-1171-0},
	abstract = {Winter climate, characterized by cold temperatures and snowfall, influences organismal physiology, which is closely related to individual survival, growth, and reproduction (Sakai and Larcher 1987). Therefore, winter climate change can have significant effects on individual and population behaviors and their related biogeochemical cycles (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions from soil microbes (Yanai et al. 2014) and nitrogen retention by plant uptake (Campbell et al. 2014)). However, the consequences of winter climate change are less well understood than those of summer time change (Kreyling 2010). This information gap may exist partly because the effect-process of winter climate change on ecosystems is more complex than that in summer. For instance, winter warming influences organisms not only via the increase in air temperature itself but also via changes (both increases and decreases) in snowfall, which has multiple functions, such as insulation and water source (Groffman et al. 2001). B},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2014-07-12},
	journal = {Ecological Research},
	author = {Kobayashi, Makoto},
	month = jul,
	year = {2014},
	note = {00001},
	keywords = {\#nosource, Behavioural Sciences, Forestry, Plant Sciences, Zoology, ecology, evolutionary biology},
	pages = {1--5},
}

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