Even modest climate change may lead to major transitions in boreal forests

PB Reich, R Bermudez, RA Montgomery, RL Rich… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The sensitivity of forests to near-term warming and associated precipitation shifts remains
uncertain,,,,,,,–. Herein, using a 5-year open-air experiment in southern boreal forest, we …

Contrasting acclimation responses to elevated CO2 and warming between an evergreen and a deciduous boreal conifer

ME Dusenge, S Madhavji, DA Way - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations may warm northern latitudes up to
8° C by the end of the century. Boreal forests play a large role in the global carbon cycle …

Climate change–induced stress disrupts ectomycorrhizal interaction networks at the boreal–temperate ecotone

CW Fernandez, L Mielke, A Stefanski… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The interaction networks formed by ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) and their tree hosts, which
are important to both forest recruitment and ecosystem carbon and nutrient retention, may be …

Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest

G Liang, A Stefanski, WC Eddy, R Bermudez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The effects of long-term climate warming on soil respiration and its drivers remain unclear in
forests, which store approximately 40% of global soil carbon. Here we conducted a climate …

Limited thermal acclimation of photosynthesis in tropical montane tree species

ME Dusenge, M Wittemann… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The temperature sensitivity of physiological processes and growth of tropical trees remains a
key uncertainty in predicting how tropical forests will adjust to future climates. In particular …

Boreal conifers maintain carbon uptake with warming despite failure to track optimal temperatures

ME Dusenge, JM Warren, PB Reich, EJ Ward… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Warming shifts the thermal optimum of net photosynthesis (T optA) to higher temperatures.
However, our knowledge of this shift is mainly derived from seedlings grown in greenhouses …

The effect of elevated CO2 on photosynthesis is modulated by nitrogen supply and reduced water availability in Picea abies

KK Ofori-Amanfo, K Klem, B Veselá, P Holub… - Tree …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
It is assumed that the stimulatory effects of elevated CO2 concentration ([CO2]) on
photosynthesis and growth may be substantially reduced by co-occurring environmental …

Research on climate change issues

R Akram, T Jabeen, MA Bukari, SA Wajid… - … Climate Resilience in …, 2022 - Springer
Agriculture plays important role in human welfare. An extensive research has been carried
out on agriculture and changes in climate over the past decades. Variation in climate is …

Stomatal behaviour moderates the water cost of CO2 acquisition for 21 boreal and temperate species under experimental climate change

A Stefanski, EE Butler, R Bermudez… - Plant, Cell & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The linkage of stomatal behaviour with photosynthesis is critical to understanding water and
carbon cycles under global change. The relationship of stomatal conductance (gs) and CO2 …

Thermal optimum of photosynthesis is controlled by stomatal conductance and does not acclimate across an urban thermal gradient in six subtropical tree species

AT Kullberg, M Slot, KJ Feeley - Plant, cell & environment, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modelling the response of plants to climate change is limited by our incomplete
understanding of the component processes of photosynthesis and their temperature …