Richard J Norby, Martin G De Kauwe, Tomas F Domingues, Remko A Duursma, David S Ellsworth, Daniel S Goll, David M Lapola, Kristina A Luus, A Rob MacKenzie, Belinda E Medlyn, Ryan Pavlick, Anja Rammig, Benjamin Smith, Rick Thomas, Kirsten Thonicke, Anthony P Walker, Xiaojuan Yang, Sönke Zaehle
The first generation of forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments has successfully provided deeper understanding about how forests respond to an increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Located in aggrading stands in the temperate zone, they have provided a strong foundation for testing critical assumptions in terrestrial biosphere models that are being used to project future interactions between forest productivity and the atmosphere, despite the limited inference space of these experiments with regards to the range of global ecosystems...
January 2016: New Phytologist