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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5929-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5929-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Reviews and syntheses
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09 Oct 2018
Reviews and syntheses | Highlight paper |
| 09 Oct 2018
| 09 Oct 2018
Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems – definitions, theories, and empirical evidence
Stefano Manzoni
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
106 91, Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
106 91, Sweden
Petr Čapek
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular
Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Philipp Porada
Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam,
Germany
Martin Thurner
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
106 91, Sweden
Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry,
Stockholm University, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden
Mattias Winterdahl
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Christian Beer
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
106 91, Sweden
Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry,
Stockholm University, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden
Volker Brüchert
Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
106 91, Sweden
Jan Frouz
CUNI Institute for Environmental Studies, Charles University in
Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Anke M. Herrmann
Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences, Uppsala, 750 07, Sweden
Björn D. Lindahl
Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences, Uppsala, 750 07, Sweden
Steve W. Lyon
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
106 91, Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
106 91, Sweden
Hana Šantrůčková
Department of Ecosystem Biology, University of South Bohemia,
České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Giulia Vico
Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, 750 07, Sweden
Danielle Way
Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Data sets
Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems S. Manzoni, P. Capek, P. Porada, M., Thurner, M. Winterdahl, C. Beer, V. Bruchert, J. Frouz, A. M. Herrmann, B. D. Lindahl, and S. Lyon W., \v{S}antru\v{c}kov\'{a}, H., Vico, G., and Way, D. https://bolin.su.se/data/Manzoni-2018
Short summary
Carbon fixed by plants and phytoplankton through photosynthesis is ultimately stored in soils and sediments or released to the atmosphere during decomposition of dead biomass. Carbon-use efficiency is a useful metric to quantify the fate of carbon – higher efficiency means higher storage and lower release to the atmosphere. Here we summarize many definitions of carbon-use efficiency and study how this metric changes from organisms to ecosystems and from terrestrial to aquatic environments.
Carbon fixed by plants and phytoplankton through photosynthesis is ultimately stored in soils...
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