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Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-785-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-785-2025
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
Research article
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12 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 12 Feb 2025

An elucidatory model of oxygen's partial pressure inside substomatal cavities

Andrew S. Kowalski

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The laws of physics show that leaf oxygen is not photosynthetically enriched but extremely dilute due to the overwhelming effects of humidification. This challenges the prevailing diffusion-only paradigm regarding leaf gas exchanges because non-diffusive transport is required. Such transport also explains why fluxes of carbon dioxide and water vapour become decoupled at very high temperatures, as has been observed but not explained by plant physiologists.
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