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Low sensitivity of gross primary production to elevated CO2 in a mature eucalypt woodland
Jinyan Yang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney
University, Penrith, NSW 2750, Australia
Belinda E. Medlyn
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney
University, Penrith, NSW 2750, Australia
Martin G. De Kauwe
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Sydney, NSW 2052,
Australia
Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Remko A. Duursma
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney
University, Penrith, NSW 2750, Australia
Mingkai Jiang
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney
University, Penrith, NSW 2750, Australia
Dushan Kumarathunge
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney
University, Penrith, NSW 2750, Australia
Kristine Y. Crous
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney
University, Penrith, NSW 2750, Australia
Teresa E. Gimeno
Basque Centre for Climate Change, Scientific Campus of the University
of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Spain
Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48008 Bilbao, Spain
Agnieszka Wujeska-Klause
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney
University, Penrith, NSW 2750, Australia
David S. Ellsworth
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney
University, Penrith, NSW 2750, Australia
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This study addressed a major knowledge gap in the response of forest productivity to elevated CO2. We first quantified forest productivity of an evergreen forest under both ambient and elevated CO2, using a model constrained by in situ measurements. The simulation showed the canopy productivity response to elevated CO2 to be smaller than that at the leaf scale due to different limiting processes. This finding provides a key reference for the understanding of CO2 impacts on forest ecosystems.
This study addressed a major knowledge gap in the response of forest productivity to elevated...
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