On the minimum leaf conductance: its role in models of plant water use, and ecological and environmental controls

RA Duursma, CJ Blackman, R Lopéz… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 693 I. Introduction 693 II. Comparison of various definitions and
measurement techniques of minimum conductance 694 III. Cuticular conductance 695 IV …

Eco‐evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land‐surface models

SP Harrison, W Cramer, O Franklin, IC Prentice… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global vegetation and land‐surface models embody interdisciplinary scientific
understanding of the behaviour of plants and ecosystems, and are indispensable to project …

Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

S Wang, Y Zhang, W Ju, JM Chen, P Ciais, A Cescatti… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The enhanced vegetation productivity driven by increased concentrations of carbon dioxide
(CO2)[ie, the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE)] sustains an important negative feedback on …

Atmospheric dryness reduces photosynthesis along a large range of soil water deficits

Z Fu, P Ciais, IC Prentice, P Gentine… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Both low soil water content (SWC) and high atmospheric dryness (vapor pressure deficit,
VPD) can negatively affect terrestrial gross primary production (GPP). The sensitivity of GPP …

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 atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth

W Yuan, Y Zheng, S Piao, P Ciais, D Lombardozzi… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is a critical variable in determining plant
photosynthesis. Synthesis of four global climate datasets reveals a sharp increase of VPD …

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 …

Global variation in the fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to photosynthesis

X Luo, TF Keenan, JM Chen, H Croft… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Plants invest a considerable amount of leaf nitrogen in the photosynthetic enzyme ribulose-
1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO), forming a strong coupling of nitrogen …

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 …