Gross primary production (GPP) is partitioned to autotrophic respiration (R a) and net
primary production (NPP), the latter being used to build plant tissues and synthesize non …

Agriculture is not only appointed to produce food but has the potential to provide a range of
ecosystem services (ES) depending on the management options adopted at field scale …

The scarcity of water and the growing global food demand has fevered the debate on how to
increase agricultural production without further depleting water resources. Crop water …

Arboriculture must maintain acceptable fruit production levels while preserving natural
resources. This duality can be analyzed with the concept of ecosystem service. We reviewed …

In agroforestry systems, shade trees strongly affect the physiology of the undergrown crop.
However, a major paradigm is that the reduction in absorbed photosynthetically active …

Plants acquire carbon through photosynthesis to sustain biomass production, autotrophic
respiration and production of non-structural compounds for multiple purposes. The fraction …

Nowadays, rapid increases in anthropogenic activities have resulted in increased
greenhouse gases (GHGs; CO2, CH4, N2O) release in the atmosphere, resulting in …

Carbon use efficiency (CUE) refers to the allocation of photosynthesized products by plants
and is commonly used to measure primary production in terrestrial ecosystems. Despite the …

Terrestrial ecosystems carbon and water cycles are tightly coupled through photosynthesis
and evapotranspiration processes. The ratios of carbon stored to carbon uptake and water …

Carbon use efficiency (CUE), one of the most important eco-physiological parameters,
represents the capacity of plants to transform carbon into new biomass. Understanding the …