Nature Communications (Sep 2022)
Nocturnal plant respiration is under strong non-temperature control
- Dan Bruhn,
- Freya Newman,
- Mathilda Hancock,
- Peter Povlsen,
- Martijn Slot,
- Stephen Sitch,
- John Drake,
- Graham P. Weedon,
- Douglas B. Clark,
- Majken Pagter,
- Richard J. Ellis,
- Mark G. Tjoelker,
- Kelly M. Andersen,
- Zorayda Restrepo Correa,
- Patrick C. McGuire,
- Lina M. Mercado
Affiliations
- Dan Bruhn
- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University
- Freya Newman
- Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy’, University of Exeter
- Mathilda Hancock
- Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy’, University of Exeter
- Peter Povlsen
- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University
- Martijn Slot
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Stephen Sitch
- Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy’, University of Exeter
- John Drake
- Department of Sustainable Resources Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- Graham P. Weedon
- Met Office
- Douglas B. Clark
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Majken Pagter
- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University
- Richard J. Ellis
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Mark G. Tjoelker
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- Kelly M. Andersen
- Nanyang Technological Institute
- Zorayda Restrepo Correa
- Grupo Servicios ecosistemicos y cambio climático (SECC), Corporación COL-TREE
- Patrick C. McGuire
- University of Reading, Department of Meteorology and National Centre for Atmospheric Science
- Lina M. Mercado
- Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy’, University of Exeter
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33370-1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Plant respiration at night is assumed to be temperature-controlled. Here, the authors show that temperature controls less than half of the variation in leaf respiration rate at night, and demonstrate how to account for such nocturnal variation in biosphere models.
