Oaks in a high-CO2 world

Skeletal mineralogy in a high-CO2 world

All about FACE--plants in a high-[CO2] world.

1 Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA 2 Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY 12222, USA 3 Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA 4 Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA Update TRE...

The biological pump in a high CO2 world

The vertical separation of organic matter formation from respiration can lead to net carbon sequestration within the ocean’s interior, making the biological pump an important component of the global carbon cycle. Understanding the response of the biological pump to the changing environment is a prerequisite to predicting future atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Will the biological pump...

Aquatic primary production in a high-CO2 world.

Here, we provide a review of the direct effect of increasing CO2 on aquatic primary producers through its function as a source of carbon, focusing our analysis on the interpretation of this increase as an increase in the availability of a resource. This provides an interesting context to evaluate ecological and evolutionary theories relating to nutrient availability and leads us to: the assessm...

Phenotypic plasticity of coralline algae in a High CO2 world

It is important to understand how marine calcifying organisms may acclimatize to ocean acidification to assess their survival over the coming century. We cultured the cold water coralline algae, Lithothamnion glaciale, under elevated pCO2 (408, 566, 770, and 1024 μatm) for 10 months. The results show that the cell (inter and intra) wall thickness is maintained, but there is a reduction in growt...