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TRY – a global database of plant traits
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The improved availability of plant trait data in the unified global database is expected to support a paradigm shift from species to trait-based ecology, offer new opportunities for synthetic plant trait research and enable a more realistic and empirically grounded representation of terrestrial vegetation in Earth system models.
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Will the tropical land biosphere dominate the climate–carbon cycle feedback during the twenty-first century?
Global warming caused by anthropogenic CO2 emissions is expected to reduce the capability of the ocean and the land biosphere to take up carbon. This will enlarge the fraction of the CO2 emissions…
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Temperature acclimation in a biochemical model of photosynthesis: a reanalysis of data from 36 species.
  • J. Kattge, W. Knorr
  • Environmental Science, Biology
    Plant, cell & environment
  • 1 September 2007
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A reanalysis of data from 36 plant species to quantify the temperature dependence of V(cmax) and J(max) with a focus on plant growth temperature, i.e. the plants' average ambient temperature during the preceding month found moderate temperature acclimation is sufficient to double-modelled photosynthesis at 40 degrees C.
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Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global‐scale terrestrial biosphere models
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This analysis uses data of qualitative traits, climate and soil to subdivide the terrestrial vegetation into functional types (PFT), and assimilates observations of carboxylation capacity, V max, and maximum photosynthesis rates into the C 3 photosynthesis model proposed by Farquhar et al.
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Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity
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A terrestrial assemblage database of unprecedented geographic and taxonomic coverage is analysed to quantify local biodiversity responses to land use and related changes and shows that in the worst-affected habitats, pressures reduce within-sample species richness by an average of 76.5%, total abundance by 39.5% and rarefaction-based richness by 40.3%.
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Comprehensive comparison of gap-filling techniques for eddy covariance net carbon fluxes
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The global spectrum of plant form and function
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Analysis of worldwide variation in six major traits critical to growth, survival and reproduction within the largest sample of vascular plant species ever compiled found that occupancy of six-dimensional trait space is strongly concentrated, indicating coordination and trade-offs.
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The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits – Vcmax and Jmax – to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta-analysis and modeling study
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It is shown that leaf P is a globally important determinant of photosynthetic rates and that plants may employ a conservative strategy of Jmax to Vcmax coordination that restricts photoinhibition when carboxylation is limiting at the expense of maximizing photosynthesis rates when light is limiting.
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Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly.
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It is proposed that functional and phylogenetic convergence in local tree community might be due to competition-sorting species with different competitive abilities and not only environmental filtering as commonly assumed.
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Nutrient limitation reduces land carbon uptake in simulations with a model of combined carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling
Terrestrial carbon (C) cycle models applied for cli- mate projections simulate a strong increase in net primary productivity (NPP) due to elevated atmospheric CO2 concen- tration during the 21st…
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