Authors
Teresa E Gimeno, Kristine Y Crous, Julia Cooke, Anthony P O'Grady, Anna Ósvaldsson, Belinda E Medlyn, David S Ellsworth
Publication date
2016/5
Journal
Functional Ecology
Volume
30
Issue
5
Pages
700-709
Description
  1. Rising levels of atmospheric CO2 concentration (Ca) and simultaneous climate change profoundly affect plant physiological performance while challenging our ability to estimate vegetation–atmosphere fluxes. To predict rates of water and carbon exchange between vegetation and the atmosphere, we require a formulation for stomatal conductance (gs) that captures the multidimensional response of stomata to changing environmental conditions. The unified stomatal optimization (USO) theory provides a formulation for gs with the ability to predict the response of gs to novel environmental conditions such as elevated Ca (eCa), warmer temperatures and/or changing water availability.
  2. We tested for the effect of eCa and seasonally varying climate on stomatal behaviour, as defined by the USO theory, during the first year of free‐air CO2 enrichment in a native eucalypt woodland (the EucFACE experiment). We …
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