A number of recent studies have provided strong support demonstrating that improving the
photosynthetic processes through genetic engineering can provide an avenue to improve …

Bioenergy from crops is expected to make a considerable contribution to climate change
mitigation. However, bioenergy is not necessarily carbon neutral because emissions of CO …

Plants buffer increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations through
enhanced growth, but the question whether nitrogen availability constrains the magnitude of …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 819–828 Abstract Nitrogen (N) effects on ecosystem carbon (C)
budgets are critical to understand as C sequestration is considered as a mechanism to offset …

Climate change predictions derived from coupled carbon-climate models are highly
dependent on assumptions about feedbacks between the biosphere and atmosphere. One …

Abstract Carbon‐use efficiency (CUE), the ratio of net primary production (NPP) to gross
primary production (GPP), describes the capacity of forests to transfer carbon (C) from the …

Elevated CO 2 increases intrinsic water use efficiency (WUE i) of forests, but the magnitude
of this effect and its interaction with climate is still poorly understood. We combined tree ring …

Aim Plant root traits regulate belowground C inputs, soil nutrient and water uptake, and play
critical roles in determining sustainable plant production and consequences for ecosystem C …

The potential for elevated [CO2]‐induced changes to plant carbon (C) storage, through
modifications in plant production and allocation of C among plant pools, is an important …

Results from free‐air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments in temperate climates indicate
that the response of forest net primary productivity (NPP) to elevated CO2 might be highly …