Updating the dual C and O isotope—Gas‐exchange model: A concept to understand plant responses to the environment and its implications for tree rings

RTW Siegwolf, MM Lehmann… - Plant, Cell & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The combined study of carbon (C) and oxygen (O) isotopes in plant organic matter has
emerged as a powerful tool for understanding plant functional responses to environmental …

The interplay of short‐term mesophyll and stomatal conductance responses under variable environmental conditions

DA Márquez, FA Busch - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the short‐term responses of mesophyll conductance (gm) and stomatal
conductance (gsc) to environmental changes remains a challenging yet central aspect of …

Short- and long-term responses of leaf day respiration to elevated atmospheric CO2

YR Sun, WT Ma, YN Xu, X Wang, L Li… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Evaluating leaf day respiration rate (RL), which is believed to differ from that in the dark (R
Dk), is essential for predicting global carbon cycles under climate change. Several studies …

Higher leaf nitrogen content is linked to tighter stomatal regulation of transpiration and more efficient water use across dryland trees

JI Querejeta, I Prieto, C Armas, F Casanoves… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The least‐cost economic theory of photosynthesis shows that water and nitrogen are
mutually substitutable resources to achieve a given carbon gain. However, vegetation in the …

CO2, nitrogen deposition and a discontinuous climate response drive water use efficiency in global forests

MA Adams, TN Buckley, D Binkley, M Neumann… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Reduced stomatal conductance is a common plant response to rising atmospheric CO2 and
increases water use efficiency (W). At the leaf-scale, W depends on water and nitrogen …

Temperature responses of leaf respiration in light and darkness are similar and modulated by leaf development

DM Zheng, X Wang, Q Liu, YR Sun, WT Ma… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Our ability to predict temperature responses of leaf respiration in light and darkness (RL and
R Dk) is essential to models of global carbon dynamics. While many models rely on constant …

Leaf stomatal configuration and photosynthetic traits jointly affect leaf water use efficiency in forests along climate gradients

S Pan, X Wang, Z Yan, J Wu, L Guo, Z Peng… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water use efficiency (WUE) represents the trade‐off between carbon assimilation and water
loss in plants. It remains unclear how leaf stomatal and photosynthetic traits regulate the …

Overestimated gains in water‐use efficiency by global forests

XY Gong, WT Ma, YZ Yu, K Fang, Y Yang… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increases in terrestrial water‐use efficiency (WUE) have been reported in many studies,
pointing to potential changes in physiological forcing of global carbon and hydrological …

Stomatal conductance limited the CO2 response of grassland in the last century

JC Baca Cabrera, RT Hirl, R Schäufele, A Macdonald… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background The anthropogenic increase of atmospheric CO 2 concentration (ca) is
impacting carbon (C), water, and nitrogen (N) cycles in grassland and other terrestrial …

Establishing the global isoscape of leaf carbon in C3 plants through the integrations of remote sensing, carbon, geographic, and physiological information

X Wang, G Chen, J Awange, Y Song, Q Wu, X Li… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The carbon isotope composition (δ 13 C Leaf) of C 3 plant leaves provides valuable
information on the carbon-water cycle of vegetation and their responses to climate change …