What is global photosynthesis? History, uncertainties and opportunities

Y Ryu, JA Berry, DD Baldocchi - Remote sensing of environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying global terrestrial photosynthesis is essential to understanding the global carbon
cycle and the climate system. Remote sensing has played a pivotal role in advancing our …

The terrestrial carbon sink

TF Keenan, CA Williams - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Life on Earth comes in many forms, but all life-forms share a common element in carbon. It is
the basic building block of biology, and by trapping radiation it also plays an important role …

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

TF Keenan, X Luo, BD Stocker, MG De Kauwe… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Theory predicts that rising CO2 increases global photosynthesis, a process known
as CO2 fertilization, and that this is responsible for much of the current terrestrial carbon …

Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees

D Zani, TW Crowther, L Mo, SS Renner, CM Zohner - Science, 2020 - science.org
Changes in the growing-season lengths of temperate trees greatly affect biotic interactions
and global carbon balance. Yet future growing-season trajectories remain highly uncertain …

CO2 fertilization of terrestrial photosynthesis inferred from site to global scales

C Chen, WJ Riley, IC Prentice… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Global photosynthesis is increasing with elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations, a
response known as the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE), but the key processes of CFE are not …

Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring

BD Stocker, J Zscheischler, TF Keenan, IC Prentice… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Satellite retrievals of information about the Earth's surface are widely used to monitor global
terrestrial photosynthesis and primary production and to examine the ecological impacts of …

Rubisco deactivation and chloroplast electron transport rates co-limit photosynthesis above optimal leaf temperature in terrestrial plants

AP Scafaro, BC Posch, JR Evans, GD Farquhar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Net photosynthetic CO2 assimilation rate (A n) decreases at leaf temperatures above a
relatively mild optimum (T opt) in most higher plants. This decline is often attributed to …

Perspectives on the future of land surface models and the challenges of representing complex terrestrial systems

RA Fisher, CD Koven - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Land surface models (LSMs) are a vital tool for understanding, projecting, and predicting the
dynamics of the land surface and its role within the Earth system, under global change …

 RETRACTED ARTICLE: A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to increasing CO2

TF Keenan, X Luo, MG De Kauwe, BE Medlyn… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The global terrestrial carbon sink is increasing,–, offsetting roughly a third of anthropogenic
CO2 released into the atmosphere each decade, and thus serving to slow the growth of …

From remotely sensed solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part I—Harnessing theory

Y Sun, L Gu, J Wen, C van Der Tol… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is a remotely sensed optical signal emitted
during the light reactions of photosynthesis. The past two decades have witnessed an …