Climate-change ecology

Plant nutrient acquisition under elevated CO2 and implications for the land carbon sink

Terrestrial ecosystems currently sequester around one-third of the anthropogenic carbon emitted each year, slowing the pace of climate …

Trevor W. Cambron, Joshua B. Fisher, Bruce A. Hungate, Benjamin D. Stocker, Trevor Keenan, Iain Colin Prentice, César Terrer

A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to rising CO2

Theory predicts that rising CO2 increases global photosynthesis, a process known as CO2 fertilization, and that this is responsible for …

T. F. Keenan, X. Luo, B. D. Stocker, M. G. De Kauwe, B. E. Medlyn, I. C. Prentice, N. G. Smith, C. Terrer, H. Wang, Y. Zhang, S. Zhou