Nature Communications (Aug 2022)
Convergence in phosphorus constraints to photosynthesis in forests around the world
- David S. Ellsworth,
- Kristine Y. Crous,
- Martin G. De Kauwe,
- Lore T. Verryckt,
- Daniel Goll,
- Sönke Zaehle,
- Keith J. Bloomfield,
- Philippe Ciais,
- Lucas A. Cernusak,
- Tomas F. Domingues,
- Mirindi Eric Dusenge,
- Sabrina Garcia,
- Rossella Guerrieri,
- F. Yoko Ishida,
- Ivan A. Janssens,
- Tanaka Kenzo,
- Tomoaki Ichie,
- Belinda E. Medlyn,
- Patrick Meir,
- Richard J. Norby,
- Peter B. Reich,
- Lucy Rowland,
- Louis S. Santiago,
- Yan Sun,
- Johan Uddling,
- Anthony P. Walker,
- K. W. Lasantha K. Weerasinghe,
- Martine J. van de Weg,
- Yun-Bing Zhang,
- Jiao-Lin Zhang,
- Ian J. Wright
Affiliations
- David S. Ellsworth
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- Kristine Y. Crous
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- Martin G. De Kauwe
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
- Lore T. Verryckt
- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp
- Daniel Goll
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CEA/CNRS/Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/ Université de Paris Saclay
- Sönke Zaehle
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Keith J. Bloomfield
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College
- Philippe Ciais
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CEA/CNRS/Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/ Université de Paris Saclay
- Lucas A. Cernusak
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
- Tomas F. Domingues
- Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Depto. de Biologia, Universidade de São Paulo-Ribeirão Preto
- Mirindi Eric Dusenge
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
- Sabrina Garcia
- National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA)
- Rossella Guerrieri
- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna
- F. Yoko Ishida
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
- Ivan A. Janssens
- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp
- Tanaka Kenzo
- Japan International Research Centre for Agricultural Sciences
- Tomoaki Ichie
- Faculty of Agriculture and Marine Science, Kochi University
- Belinda E. Medlyn
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- Patrick Meir
- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University
- Richard J. Norby
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
- Peter B. Reich
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- Lucy Rowland
- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter
- Louis S. Santiago
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside
- Yan Sun
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CEA/CNRS/Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/ Université de Paris Saclay
- Johan Uddling
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
- Anthony P. Walker
- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- K. W. Lasantha K. Weerasinghe
- Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya
- Martine J. van de Weg
- School of Geosciences, Edinburgh University
- Yun-Bing Zhang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jiao-Lin Zhang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ian J. Wright
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32545-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Phosphorus (P) limitation is pervasive in tropical forests. Here the authors analyse the dependence of photosynthesis on leaf N and P in tropical forests, and show that incorporating leaf P constraints in a terrestrial biosphere model enhances its predictive power.
