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    Publication Date: 2013-07-12
    Description: Terrestrial plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, a process that is accompanied by the loss of water vapour from leaves. The ratio of water loss to carbon gain, or water-use efficiency, is a key characteristic of ecosystem function that is central to the global cycles of water, energy and carbon. Here we analyse direct, long-term measurements of whole-ecosystem carbon and water exchange. We find a substantial increase in water-use efficiency in temperate and boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere over the past two decades. We systematically assess various competing hypotheses to explain this trend, and find that the observed increase is most consistent with a strong CO2 fertilization effect. The results suggest a partial closure of stomata-small pores on the leaf surface that regulate gas exchange-to maintain a near-constant concentration of CO2 inside the leaf even under continually increasing atmospheric CO2 levels. The observed increase in forest water-use efficiency is larger than that predicted by existing theory and 13 terrestrial biosphere models. The increase is associated with trends of increasing ecosystem-level photosynthesis and net carbon uptake, and decreasing evapotranspiration. Our findings suggest a shift in the carbon- and water-based economics of terrestrial vegetation, which may require a reassessment of the role of stomatal control in regulating interactions between forests and climate change, and a re-evaluation of coupled vegetation-climate models.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Keenan, Trevor F -- Hollinger, David Y -- Bohrer, Gil -- Dragoni, Danilo -- Munger, J William -- Schmid, Hans Peter -- Richardson, Andrew D -- England -- Nature. 2013 Jul 18;499(7458):324-7. doi: 10.1038/nature12291. Epub 2013 Jul 10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. tkeenan@oeb.harvard.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23842499" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Atmosphere/chemistry ; Carbon Dioxide/*analysis ; *Ecosystem ; Plant Leaves/chemistry ; Trees/*chemistry ; Water/*analysis
    Print ISSN: 0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Publication Date: 2014-03-14
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Keenan, Trevor F -- Hollinger, David Y -- Bohrer, Gil -- Dragoni, Danilo -- Munger, J William -- Schmid, Hans Peter -- Richardson, Andrew D -- England -- Nature. 2014 Mar 13;507(7491):E2-3. doi: 10.1038/nature13114.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales 2109, Australia. ; USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Durham, New Hamphire 03824, USA. ; Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. ; Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA. ; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ; Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 82467, Germany. ; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24622207" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Carbon Dioxide/*analysis ; *Ecosystem ; Trees/*chemistry ; Water/*analysis
    Print ISSN: 0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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