Nature Communications (Feb 2019)
Decadal biomass increment in early secondary succession woody ecosystems is increased by CO2 enrichment
- Anthony P. Walker,
- Martin G. De Kauwe,
- Belinda E. Medlyn,
- Sönke Zaehle,
- Colleen M. Iversen,
- Shinichi Asao,
- Bertrand Guenet,
- Anna Harper,
- Thomas Hickler,
- Bruce A. Hungate,
- Atul K. Jain,
- Yiqi Luo,
- Xingjie Lu,
- Meng Lu,
- Kristina Luus,
- J. Patrick Megonigal,
- Ram Oren,
- Edmund Ryan,
- Shijie Shu,
- Alan Talhelm,
- Ying-Ping Wang,
- Jeffrey M. Warren,
- Christian Werner,
- Jianyang Xia,
- Bai Yang,
- Donald R. Zak,
- Richard J. Norby
Affiliations
- Anthony P. Walker
- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Martin G. De Kauwe
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales
- Belinda E. Medlyn
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- Sönke Zaehle
- Biogeochemical Integration Department, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Colleen M. Iversen
- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Shinichi Asao
- Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
- Bertrand Guenet
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
- Anna Harper
- College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, Laver Building, University of Exeter
- Thomas Hickler
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
- Bruce A. Hungate
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University
- Atul K. Jain
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois
- Yiqi Luo
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University
- Xingjie Lu
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
- Meng Lu
- School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University
- Kristina Luus
- Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research (CeADAR), Dublin Institute of Technology
- J. Patrick Megonigal
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Ram Oren
- Nicholas School of the Environment & Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
- Edmund Ryan
- School of Mathematics, University of Manchester
- Shijie Shu
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois
- Alan Talhelm
- Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho
- Ying-Ping Wang
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
- Jeffrey M. Warren
- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Christian Werner
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
- Jianyang Xia
- Tiantong National Station of Forest Ecosystem and Research, Center for Global Change and Ecological Forecasting, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University
- Bai Yang
- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Donald R. Zak
- School of Natural Resources and Environment, and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
- Richard J. Norby
- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08348-1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
It is unclear whether CO2-stimulation of photosynthesis can propagate through slower ecosystem processes and lead to long-term increases in terrestrial carbon. Here the authors show that CO2-stimulation of photosynthesis leads to a 30% increase in forest regrowth over a decade of CO2 enrichment.
