Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

NG McDowell, G Sapes, A Pivovaroff… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Drought-associated woody-plant mortality has been increasing in most regions with multi-
decadal records and is projected to increase in the future, impacting terrestrial climate …

What have we learned from 15 years of free‐air CO2 enrichment (FACE)? A meta‐analytic review of the responses of photosynthesis, canopy properties and plant production to …

EA Ainsworth, SP Long - New phytologist, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments allow study of the effects of elevated [CO2] on
plants and ecosystems grown under natural conditions without enclosure. Data from 120 …

The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

F Hua, LA Bruijnzeel, P Meli, PA Martin, J Zhang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and
biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery …

Plant responses to increasing CO2 reduce estimates of climate impacts on drought severity

ALS Swann, FM Hoffman, CD Koven… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Rising atmospheric CO2 will make Earth warmer, and many studies have inferred that this
warming will cause droughts to become more widespread and severe. However, rising …

Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem responses to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide

Y Luo, BO Su, WS Currie, JS Dukes, A Finzi… - Bioscience, 2004 - academic.oup.com
A highly controversial issue in global biogeochemistry is the regulation of terrestrial carbon
(C) sequestration by soil nitrogen (N) availability. This controversy translates into great …

Ecological Lessons from Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Experiments

RJ Norby, DR Zak - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments have provided novel insights into the
ecological mechanisms controlling the cycling and storage of carbon in terrestrial …

ELEVATED CO2 STIMULATES NET ACCUMULATIONS OF CARBON AND NITROGEN IN LAND ECOSYSTEMS: A META‐ANALYSIS

Y Luo, D Hui, D Zhang - Ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The capability of terrestrial ecosystems to sequester carbon (C) plays a critical role in
regulating future climatic change yet depends on nitrogen (N) availability. To predict long …

Evapotranspiration: A process driving mass transport and energy exchange in the soil‐plant‐atmosphere‐climate system

GG Katul, R Oren, S Manzoni, C Higgins… - Reviews of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The role of evapotranspiration (ET) in the global, continental, regional, and local water
cycles is reviewed. Elevated atmospheric CO2, air temperature, vapor pressure deficit (D) …

Sensitivity of plants to changing atmospheric CO2 concentration: from the geological past to the next century

PJ Franks, MA Adams, JS Amthor, MM Barbour… - New …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The rate of CO 2 assimilation by plants is directly influenced by the concentration of CO 2 in
the atmosphere, ca. As an environmental variable, ca also has a unique global and historic …

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2: a model‐data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

MG De Kauwe, BE Medlyn, S Zaehle… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Predicted responses of transpiration to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration (eCO2) are
highly variable amongst process‐based models. To better understand and constrain this …