Because of human action, the Earth has entered an era where profound changes in the
global environment are creating novel conditions that will be discernable far into the future …

Evergreen species are widespread across the globe, representing two major plant functional
forms in terrestrial models. We reviewed and analysed the responses of photosynthesis and …

Ecosystem respiration (ER) is among the largest carbon fluxes between the biosphere and
the atmosphere. Understanding the temperature response of ER is crucial for predicting the …

Climate change is altering the availability of resources and the conditions that are crucial to
plant performance. One way plants will respond to these changes is through …

To realistically simulate climate feedbacks from the land surface to the atmosphere, models
must replicate the responses of plants to environmental changes. Several processes …

Leaf dark respiration (Rdark) is an important yet poorly quantified component of the global
carbon cycle. Given this, we analyzed a new global database of Rdark and associated leaf …

Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) are indispensable for our understanding of
climate change impacts. The application of traits in DGVMs is increasingly refined. However …

We describe an implementation of the Ecosystem Demography (ED) concept in the
Community Land Model. The structure of CLM (ED) and the physiological and structural …

Climate models have evolved into Earth system models with representation of the physics,
chemistry, and biology of terrestrial ecosystems. This companion book to Gordon Bonan's …

Abstract Earth System Models typically use static responses to temperature to calculate
photosynthesis and respiration, but experimental evidence suggests that many plants …