Biological Response of Invasive Parthenium Weed to Elevated Concentration of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Soil Salinity

Response of agronomic and forest species to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide on corn, soybeans, loblolly pine, and sweetgum were studied in the field during a growing season. The plants were exposed to a range of concentrations of carbon dioxide day and night in open-topped, flow-through chambers. At a mean daytime carbon dioxide concentration of 910 parts per million, increases in total biomass ranged from 157 to 186 percent of...

Responses of soil respiration to elevated carbon dioxide in China

Responses of soil respiration to elevated carbon dioxide and nitrogen addition in subtropical forest ecosystems in China Q. Deng, G. Zhou, J. Liu, S. Liu, H. Duan, and D. Zhang South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China Received: 16 June 2009 – Accepted: 7 August 2009 – Published: 2...

Effects of Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Temperature on Forests

Carbon budget of Pinus sylvestris saplings after four years of exposure to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.

To study the responses of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), a commercially important tree species in Europe, to future increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]), we grew saplings for 4 years in the ground in open-top chambers in ambient or ambient + 400 micromol mol(-1) CO2, without supplemental addition of nutrients and water. Carbon (C) budgets were developed for trees in both CO2 tr...

Photosynthetic acclimation to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.

With rising level of CO2 in the atmosphere plants are expected to be exposed to higher concentration of CO2. Since, CO2 is a substrate limiting photosynthesis particularly in C3 plants in the present atmosphere, the impact of elevated CO2 would depend mainly on how photosynthesis acclimates or adjusts to the long term elevated level of CO2. Photosynthetic acclimation is a change in photosynthet...