Optimum air temperature for tropical forest photosynthesis: mechanisms involved and implications for climate warming

• Zheng-Hong Tan,
• Jiye Zeng,
• Yong-Jiang Zhang,
• Martijn Slot,
• Minoru Gamo,
• Takashi Hirano,
• Yoshiko Kosugi,
• Humberto R da Rocha,
• Scott R Saleska,
• Michael L Goulden,
• Steven C Wofsy,
• Scott D Miller,
• Antonio O Manzi,
• Antonio D Nobre,
• Plinio B de Camargo,
• Natalia Restrepo-Coupe

Affiliations

Zheng-Hong Tan

Ecology Program, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry , Hainan University, Haikou 570228, People’s Republic of China; Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed.

Jiye Zeng

National Institute for Environmental Studies , Tsukuba 305-0053, Japan

Yong-Jiang Zhang

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology , Harvard University, Cambridge 02138, United States of America

Martijn Slot

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute , Apartado 0843–3092, Panama

Minoru Gamo

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology , Tsukuba 305–8569, Japan

Takashi Hirano

Graduate School of Agriculture , Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060–8589, Japan

Yoshiko Kosugi

Forest Hydrology, Graduate School Agriculture , Kyoto University, Kyoto 606–8502, Japan

Humberto R da Rocha

Department of Atmospheric Science , Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05508-090, Brazil

Scott R Saleska

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, 85721, United States of America

Michael L Goulden

Department of Earth System Science , University of California, Irvine 92697, United States of America

Steven C Wofsy

Division of Applied Science , Harvard University, Cambridge 02138, United States of America

Scott D Miller

Atmospheric Sciences Research Center , State University of New York at Albany, New York 12203, United States of America

Antonio O Manzi

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA) , Manaus 69011, Brazil

Antonio D Nobre

Laboratório de Ecologia Isotópica , Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05468, Brazil

Plinio B de Camargo

Department of Biological Sciences , Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, Australia

Natalia Restrepo-Coupe

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, 85721, United States of America; Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster , University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia