What drives forest carbon storage? The ramifications of source–sink decoupling

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, SA Kannenberg - New Phytologist, 2022 - osti.gov
As the climate changes and scientists seek to project its future course, an important
uncertainty lies in the response of forests. Will rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and …

New insights into mechanisms driving carbon allocation in tropical forests

F Hofhansl, J Schnecker, G Singer, W Wanek - New Phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The proportion of carbon allocated to wood production is an important determinant of the
carbon sink strength of global forest ecosystems. Understanding the mechanisms controlling …

Growing biodiverse carbon‐rich forests

JB Pichancourt, J Firn, I Chadès… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Regrowing forests on cleared land is a key strategy to achieve both biodiversity
conservation and climate change mitigation globally. Maximizing these co‐benefits …

Aboveground tree growth is a minor and decoupled fraction of boreal forest carbon input

C Pappas, J Maillet, S Rakowski, JL Baltzer… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
The boreal biome accounts for approximately one third of the terrestrial carbon (C) sink.
However, estimates of its individual C pools remain uncertain. Here, focusing on the …

Fundamental trade‐offs generating the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

B Shipley, MJ Lechowicz, I Wright, PB Reich - Ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Recent work has identified a worldwide “economic” spectrum of correlated leaf traits that
affects global patterns of nutrient cycling and primary productivity and that is used to …

Venation networks and the origin of the leaf economics spectrum

B Blonder, C Violle, LP Bentley, BJ Enquist - Ecology letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 91–100 Abstract The leaf economics spectrum describes biome‐
invariant scaling functions for leaf functional traits that relate to global primary productivity …

The sensitivity of the forest carbon budget shifts across processes along with stand development and climate change

A Collalti, PE Thornton, A Cescatti, A Rita… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The future trajectory of atmospheric CO2 concentration depends on the development of the
terrestrial carbon sink, which in turn is influenced by forest dynamics under changing …

[HTML][HTML] Plant responses to climate warming: physiological adjustments and implications for plant functioning in a future, warmer world

KY Crous - American journal of botany, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Earth's average temperatures have been rising since the start of the Industrial
Revolution, in major part driven by rising concentrations of carbon dioxide. Correlated with …

The impact of rising CO2 and acclimation on the response of US forests to global warming

JS Sperry, MD Venturas, HN Todd… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The response of forests to climate change depends in part on whether the photosynthetic
benefit from increased atmospheric CO2 (∆ Ca= future minus historic CO2) compensates for …

Predicting tree biomass growth in the temperate–boreal ecotone: Is tree size, age, competition, or climate response most important?

JR Foster, AO Finley, AW D'Amato… - Global Change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
As global temperatures rise, variation in annual climate is also changing, with unknown
consequences for forest biomes. Growing forests have the ability to capture atmospheric …