Plant carbon metabolism and climate change: elevated CO2 and temperature impacts on photosynthesis, photorespiration and respiration

ME Dusenge, AG Duarte, DA Way - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 32 I. The importance of plant carbon metabolism for climate change 32 II.
Rising atmospheric CO2 and carbon metabolism 33 III. Rising temperatures and carbon …

How eddy covariance flux measurements have contributed to our understanding of Global Change Biology

DD Baldocchi - Global change biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A global network of long‐term carbon and water flux measurements has existed since the
late 1990s. With its representative sampling of the terrestrial biosphere's climate and …

Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes

M Huang, S Piao, P Ciais, J Peñuelas, X Wang… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
The global distribution of the optimum air temperature for ecosystem-level gross primary
productivity (T opt eco) is poorly understood, despite its importance for ecosystem carbon …

Evidence for widespread thermal optimality of ecosystem respiration

W Chen, S Wang, J Wang, J Xia, Y Luo, G Yu… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Ecosystem respiration (ER) is among the largest carbon fluxes between the biosphere and
the atmosphere. Understanding the temperature response of ER is crucial for predicting the …

No evidence of canopy-scale leaf thermoregulation to cool leaves below air temperature across a range of forest ecosystems

CJ Still, G Page, B Rastogi, DM Griffith… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding and predicting the relationship between leaf temperature (Tleaf) and air
temperature (Tair) is essential for projecting responses to a warming climate, as studies …

Thermal adaptation of decomposer communities in warming soils

MA Bradford - Frontiers in microbiology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Temperature regulates the rate of biogeochemical cycles. One way it does so is through
control of microbial metabolism. Warming effects on metabolism change with time as …

Dynamic relationships between microbial biomass, respiration, inorganic nutrients and enzyme activities: informing enzyme-based decomposition models

DL Moorhead, ZL Rinkes, RL Sinsabaugh… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
We re-examined data from a recent litter decay study to determine if additional insights could
be gained to inform decomposition modeling. Rinkes et al. conducted 14-day laboratory …

Thermal acclimation of photosynthesis: on the importance of adjusting our definitions and accounting for thermal acclimation of respiration

DA Way, W Yamori - Photosynthesis research, 2014 - Springer
While interest in photosynthetic thermal acclimation has been stimulated by climate
warming, comparing results across studies requires consistent terminology. We identify five …

Terrestrial carbon cycle affected by non-uniform climate warming

J Xia, J Chen, S Piao, P Ciais, Y Luo, S Wan - Nature Geoscience, 2014 - nature.com
Feedbacks between the terrestrial carbon cycle and climate change could affect many
ecosystem functions and services, such as food production, carbon sequestration and …

Effects of climate warming on carbon fluxes in grasslands—A global meta‐analysis

N Wang, B Quesada, L Xia… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming will affect terrestrial ecosystems in many ways, and warming‐induced
changes in terrestrial carbon (C) cycling could accelerate or slow future warming. So far …