Authors
Mingkai Jiang, Belinda E Medlyn, John E Drake, Remko A Duursma, Ian C Anderson, Craig VM Barton, Matthias M Boer, Yolima Carrillo, Laura Castañeda-Gómez, Luke Collins, Kristine Y Crous, Martin G De Kauwe, Bruna M Dos Santos, Kathryn M Emmerson, Sarah L Facey, Andrew N Gherlenda, Teresa E Gimeno, Shun Hasegawa, Scott N Johnson, Astrid Kännaste, Catriona A Macdonald, Kashif Mahmud, Ben D Moore, Loïc Nazaries, Elizabeth HJ Neilson, Uffe N Nielsen, Ülo Niinemets, Nam Jin Noh, Raúl Ochoa-Hueso, Varsha S Pathare, Elise Pendall, Johanna Pihlblad, Juan Piñeiro, Jeff R Powell, Sally A Power, Peter B Reich, Alexandre A Renchon, Markus Riegler, Riikka Rinnan, Paul D Rymer, Roberto L Salomón, Brajesh K Singh, Benjamin Smith, Mark G Tjoelker, Jennifer KM Walker, Agnieszka Wujeska-Klause, Jinyan Yang, Sönke Zaehle, David S Ellsworth
Publication date
2020/4/9
Journal
Nature
Volume
580
Issue
7802
Pages
227-231
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
Atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment (eCO2) can enhance plant carbon uptake and growth, , , –, thereby providing an important negative feedback to climate change by slowing the rate of increase of the atmospheric CO2 concentration. Although evidence gathered from young aggrading forests has generally indicated a strong CO2 fertilization effect on biomass growth, –, it is unclear whether mature forests respond to eCO2 in a similar way. In mature trees and forest stands, , –, photosynthetic uptake has been found to increase under eCO2 without any apparent accompanying growth response, leaving the fate of additional carbon fixed under eCO2 unclear,,, , , –. Here using data from the first ecosystem-scale Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment in a mature forest, we constructed a comprehensive ecosystem carbon budget to track the fate of carbon as the forest responded to four years of eCO2 …
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M Jiang, BE Medlyn, JE Drake, RA Duursma… - Nature, 2020