Predicted increases in future global temperatures require us to better understand the
dimensions of heat stress experienced by plants. Here we highlight four key areas for …

The sustainability of life on Earth is under increasing threat due to human-induced climate
change. This perilous change in the Earth's climate is caused by increases in carbon dioxide …

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 …

Warming experiments are increasingly relied on to estimate plant responses to global
climate change,. For experiments to provide meaningful predictions of future responses, they …

Increased climate variability and higher mean temperatures are expected across many
world regions, both of which will contribute to more frequent extreme high temperatures …

Ecophysiological models are widely used to forecast potential impacts of climate change on
future agricultural productivity and to examine options for adaptation by local stakeholders …

Elevated CO2 and temperature strongly affect crop production, but understanding of the crop
response to combined CO2 and temperature increases under field conditions is still limited …

Global warming is predicted to induce desiccation in many world regions through increases
in evaporative demand,,. Rising CO2 may counter that trend by improving plant water-use …

Uncertainty about the effects of warming and grazing on soil nitrogen (N) availability,
species composition, and aboveground net primary production (ANPP) limits our ability to …

Rice production is challenged by the asymmetric increases in day and night temperatures.
Efforts are required to improve our understanding of the impact of climate change on rice …