Ecosystem ecology

Evidence for widespread thermal acclimation of canopy photosynthesis

Plants acclimate to temperature by adjusting their photosynthetic capacity over weeks to months. However, most evidence for …

Jiangong Liu, Youngryel Ryu, Xiangzhong Luo, Benjamin Dechant, Benjamin D. Stocker, Trevor F. Keenan, Pierre Gentine, Xing Li, Bolun Li, Sandy P. Harrison, Iain Colin Prentice

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