Crop responses to elevated CO2 and interactions with H2O, N, and temperature

BA Kimball - Current opinion in plant biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•The last 27 years of FACE (free-air CO 2 enrichment) experiments were
reviewed.•Elevated CO 2 decreased evapotranspiration of both C 3 and C 4 plants about …

Tropical forest carbon balance in a warmer world: A critical review spanning microbial‐to ecosystem‐scale processes

TE Wood, MA Cavaleri, SC Reed - Biological Reviews, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests play a major role in regulating global carbon (C) fluxes and stocks, and even
small changes to C cycling in this productive biome could dramatically affect atmospheric …

Urgent need for warming experiments in tropical forests

MA Cavaleri, SC Reed, WK Smith… - Global Change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Although tropical forests account for only a fraction of the planet's terrestrial surface, they
exchange more carbon dioxide with the atmosphere than any other biome on Earth, and …

Shifting grassland plant community structure drives positive interactive effects of warming and diversity on aboveground net primary productivity

JM Cowles, PD Wragg, AJ Wright… - Global Change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems worldwide are increasingly impacted by multiple drivers of environmental
change, including climate warming and loss of biodiversity. We show, using a long‐term …

Increasing atmospheric CO2 and canopy temperature induces anatomical and physiological changes in leaves of the C4 forage species Panicum maximum

E Habermann, JAB San Martin, DR Contin, VP Bossan… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Changes in leaf anatomy and ultrastructure are associated with physiological performance
in the context of plant adaptations to climate change. In this study, we investigated the …

Warming and drought reduce temperature sensitivity of nitrogen transformations

DSN Auyeung, V Suseela, JS Dukes - Global Change Biology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Shifts in nitrogen (N) mineralization and nitrification rates due to global changes can
influence nutrient availability, which can affect terrestrial productivity and climate change …

Design and performance of combined infrared canopy and belowground warming in the B4Warm ED (Boreal Forest Warming at an Ecotone in Danger) experiment

RL Rich, A Stefanski, RA Montgomery… - Global Change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Conducting manipulative climate change experiments in complex vegetation is challenging,
given considerable temporal and spatial heterogeneity. One specific challenge involves …

Infrared heater system for warming tropical forest understory plants and soils

BA Kimball, AM Alonso‐Rodríguez… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The response of tropical forests to global warming is one of the largest uncertainties in
predicting the future carbon balance of Earth. To determine the likely effects of elevated …

An imperative need for global change research in tropical forests

X Zhou, Y Fu, L Zhou, B Li, Y Luo - Tree physiology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Tropical forests play a crucial role in regulating regional and global climate dynamics, and
model projections suggest that rapid climate change may result in forest dieback or …

Design and performance of an ecosystem‐scale forest soil warming experiment with infrared heater arrays

Y Duan, D Liu, K Huang, W Shou, F Zhu… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
How forest ecosystems respond to climate warming will determine forest trajectories over the
next 100 years. However, the potential effects of elevated temperature on forests remain …