Modelling carbon sources and sinks in terrestrial vegetation

Introducing turgor-driven growth dynamics into functional–structural plant models

(2018) Jonas R Coussement et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage

(2018) Vincent Humphrey et al.   NATURE

Unravelling the age of fine roots of temperate and boreal forests

(2018) Emily F. Solly et al.   Nature Communications

Constrained variability of modeled T :ET ratio across biomes

(2017) Simone Fatichi et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Dying piece by piece: carbohydrate dynamics in aspen (Populus tremuloides) seedlings under severe carbon stress

(2017) Erin Wiley et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Large historical growth in global terrestrial gross primary production

(2017) J. E. Campbell et al.   NATURE

Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed

(2017) A. Arneth et al.   Nature Geoscience

How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water-use efficiency compare?

(2017) Belinda E. Medlyn et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Daytime depression in temperature-normalised stem CO2 efflux in young poplar trees is dominated by low turgor pressure rather than by internal transport of respired CO2

(2017) Roberto L. Salomón et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cell size and wall dimensions drive distinct variability of earlywood and latewood density in Northern Hemisphere conifers

(2017) Jesper Björklund et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Stomatal Function across Temporal and Spatial Scales: Deep-Time Trends, Land-Atmosphere Coupling and Global Models

(2017) Peter J. Franks et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Modeling Stomatal Conductance

(2017) Thomas N. Buckley   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A matter of tree longevity

(2017) Christian Körner   SCIENCE

Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

(2017) A. Baccini et al.   SCIENCE

OCO-2 advances photosynthesis observation from space via solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

(2017) Y. Sun et al.   SCIENCE

Reduced growth due to belowground sink limitation is not fully explained by reduced photosynthesis

(2017) Courtney E. Campany et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate

(2017) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Communications

Recent increases in terrestrial carbon uptake at little cost to the water cycle

(2017) Lei Cheng et al.   Nature Communications

Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil

(2017) David S. Ellsworth et al.   Nature Climate Change

Accelerating net terrestrial carbon uptake during the warming hiatus due to reduced respiration

(2017) Ashley Ballantyne et al.   Nature Climate Change

Atmospheric deposition, CO2, and change in the land carbon sink

(2017) M. Fernández-Martínez et al.   Scientific Reports

Uncertainty in the response of terrestrial carbon sink to environmental drivers undermines carbon-climate feedback predictions

(2017) D. N. Huntzinger et al.   Scientific Reports

Modeling Tree Growth Taking into Account Carbon Source and Sink Limitations

(2017) Amaury Hayat et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Ecosystem functioning is enveloped by hydrometeorological variability

(2017) Christoforos Pappas et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Shifting from a fertilization-dominated to a warming-dominated period

(2017) Josep Peñuelas et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Dynamics of non-structural carbohydrates in terrestrial plants: a global synthesis

(2016) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Tree demography dominates long-term growth trends inferred from tree rings

(2016) Roel J. W. Brienen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pattern of xylem phenology in conifers of cold ecosystems at the Northern Hemisphere

(2016) Sergio Rossi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Key knowledge and data gaps in modelling the influence of CO 2 concentration on the terrestrial carbon sink

(2016) T.A.M. Pugh et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Seasonality of temperate forest photosynthesis and daytime respiration

(2016) R. Wehr et al.   NATURE

Understanding the roles of nonstructural carbohydrates in forest trees - from what we can measure to what we want to know

(2016) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

(2016) Alistair Rogers et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Environmental control of carbon allocation matters for modelling forest growth

(2016) Joannès Guillemot et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

(2016) Xiangtao Xu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Partitioning direct and indirect effects reveals the response of water-limited ecosystems to elevated CO2

(2016) Simone Fatichi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consistency between sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary production of vegetation in North America

(2016) Yao Zhang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Enhanced seasonal CO2 exchange caused by amplified plant productivity in northern ecosystems

(2016) M. Forkel et al.   SCIENCE

Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake

(2016) Trevor F Keenan et al.   Nature Communications

Greening of the Earth and its drivers

(2016) Zaichun Zhu et al.   Nature Climate Change

Temperate and boreal forest tree phenology: from organ-scale processes to terrestrial ecosystem models

(2015) Nicolas Delpierre et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Paradigm shift in plant growth control

(2015) Christian Körner   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models

(2015) William R. Wieder et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Source and sink carbon dynamics and carbon allocation in the Amazon basin

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

No evidence for consistent long-term growth stimulation of 13 tropical tree species: results from tree-ring analysis

(2015) Peter Groenendijk et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability

(2015) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Geoscience

The role of stoichiometric flexibility in modelling forest ecosystem responses to nitrogen fertilization

(2015) Johannes Meyerholt et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How fresh is maple syrup? Sugar maple trees mobilize carbon stored several years previously during early springtime sap-ascent

(2015) Jan Muhr et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Distribution and mixing of old and new nonstructural carbon in two temperate trees

(2015) Andrew D. Richardson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

(2015) Owen K. Atkin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Wood phenology, not carbon input, controls the interannual variability of wood growth in a temperate oak forest

(2015) Nicolas Delpierre et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

CASSIA - a dynamic model for predicting intra-annual sink demand and interannual growth variation in Scots pine

(2015) Pauliina Schiestl-Aalto et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Carbon cycle feedbacks and future climate change

(2015) Pierre Friedlingstein   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

The many meanings of gross photosynthesis and their implication for photosynthesis research from leaf to globe

(2015) Georg Wohlfahrt et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Radial stem variations - a source of tree physiological information not fully exploited yet

(2015) Roman Zweifel   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Diel growth dynamics in tree stems: linking anatomy and ecophysiology

(2015) Kathy Steppe et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

(2015) D. C. Frank et al.   Nature Climate Change

Modeling plant-water interactions: an ecohydrological overview from the cell to the global scale

(2015) Simone Fatichi et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

Dynamics of leaf gas exchange, xylem and phloem transport, water potential and carbohydrate concentration in a realistic 3-D model tree crown

(2014) Eero Nikinmaa et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Variability in root production, phenology, and turnover rate among 12 temperate tree species

(2014) M. Luke McCormack et al.   ECOLOGY

No growth stimulation of tropical trees by 150 years of CO2 fertilization but water-use efficiency increased

(2014) Peter van der Sleen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Plant growth enhancement by elevated CO2 eliminated by joint water and nitrogen limitation

(2014) Peter B. Reich et al.   Nature Geoscience

Increased water-use efficiency does not lead to enhanced tree growth under xeric and mesic conditions

(2014) Mathieu Lévesque et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tree carbon allocation dynamics determined using a carbon mass balance approach

(2014) Tamir Klein et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A worldwide analysis of within-canopy variations in leaf structural, chemical and physiological traits across plant functional types

(2014) Ülo Niinemets et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2Enrichment studies

(2014) Sönke Zaehle et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

(2014) Flurin Babst et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effect of increasing CO2on the terrestrial carbon cycle

(2014) David Schimel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance

(2014) Fernando D.B. Espírito-Santo et al.   Nature Communications

Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance

(2014) M. Fernández-Martínez et al.   Nature Climate Change

Reconciling observations with modeling: The fate of water and carbon allocation in a mature deciduous forest exposed to elevated CO2

(2013) Simone Fatichi et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Carbon dynamics in the Amazonian Basin: Integration of eddy covariance and ecophysiological data with a land surface model

(2013) Bassil El-Masri et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Competition for Water and Light in Closed-Canopy Forests: A Tractable Model of Carbon Allocation with Implications for Carbon Sinks

(2013) Caroline E. Farrior et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Nonstructural Carbon in Woody Plants

(2013) Michael C. Dietze et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Impact of CO2fertilization on maximum foliage cover across the globe's warm, arid environments

(2013) Randall J. Donohue et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A sink-limited growth model improves biomass estimation along boreal and alpine tree lines

(2013) Sebastian Leuzinger et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

(2013) Pierre Friedlingstein et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise

(2013) Trevor F. Keenan et al.   NATURE

Ecosystem photosynthesis inferred from measurements of carbonyl sulphide flux

(2013) David Asaf et al.   Nature Geoscience

Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

(2013) Pierre Regnier et al.   Nature Geoscience

Age, allocation and availability of nonstructural carbon in mature red maple trees

(2013) Mariah S. Carbone et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Moving beyond photosynthesis: from carbon source to sink-driven vegetation modeling

(2013) Simone Fatichi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Thirst beats hunger - declining hydration during drought prevents carbon starvation in Norway spruce saplings

(2013) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Does carbon storage limit tree growth?

(2013) Sara Palacio et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Modelling C3photosynthesis from the chloroplast to the ecosystem

(2013) CARL J. BERNACCHI et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Modelling stomatal conductance in response to environmental factors

(2013) THOMAS N. BUCKLEY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Improving Photosynthesis

(2013) J. R. Evans   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

(2013) Andrew D. Friend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection

(2013) R. Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO2 by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960

(2013) H. D. Graven et al.   SCIENCE

Global Data Sets of Vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI)3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)3g Derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the Period 1981 to 2011

(2013) Zaichun Zhu et al.   Remote Sensing

Bringing the Kok effect to light: A review on the integration of daytime respiration and net ecosystem exchange

(2013) Mary A. Heskel et al.   Ecosphere

Fertile forests produce biomass more efficiently

(2012) S. Vicca et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant respiration and photosynthesis in global-scale models: incorporating acclimation to temperature and CO2

(2012) Nicholas G Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Reconciling leaf physiological traits and canopy flux data: Use of the TRY and FLUXNET databases in the Community Land Model version 4

(2012) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Seasonal dynamics and age of stemwood nonstructural carbohydrates in temperate forest trees

(2012) Andrew D. Richardson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A carbohydrate supply and demand model of vegetative growth: response to temperature and light

(2012) MARTIN P. N. GENT et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Assimilate transport in phloem sets conditions for leaf gas exchange

(2012) EERO NIKINMAA et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Variable mesophyll conductance revisited: theoretical background and experimental implications

(2012) DANNY THOLEN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Modeling carbon allocation in trees: a search for principles

(2012) O. Franklin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Carbon dynamics in trees: feast or famine?

(2012) A. Sala et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Elevated CO2 affects photosynthetic responses in canopy pine and subcanopy deciduous trees over 10 years: a synthesis from Duke FACE

(2011) David S. Ellsworth et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Water deficits uncouple growth from photosynthesis, increase C content, and modify the relationships between C and growth in sink organs

(2011) Bertrand Muller et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data

(2011) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

How do we improve Earth system models? Integrating Earth system models, ecosystem models, experiments and long-term data

(2011) Sebastian Leuzinger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Modelling the size and composition of fruit, grain and seed by process-based simulation models

(2011) Pierre Martre et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Carbon reserves and canopy defoliation determine the recovery of Scots pine 4 yr after a drought episode

(2011) L. Galiano et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Carbonyl sulfide (COS) as a tracer for canopy photosynthesis, transpiration and stomatal conductance: potential and limitations†

(2011) GEORG WOHLFAHRT et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Mechanisms Linking Drought, Hydraulics, Carbon Metabolism, and Vegetation Mortality

(2011) N. G. McDowell   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Evaluating uncertainty in mapping forest carbon with airborne LiDAR

(2011) Joseph Mascaro et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The 2010 Amazon Drought

(2011) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Defoliation increases risk of carbon starvation in root systems of mature aspen

(2011) Simon M. Landhäusser et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Carbon–nitrogen interactions on land at global scales: current understanding in modelling climate biosphere feedbacks

(2011) Sönke Zaehle et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Characterization of the interactions between architecture and source–sink relationships in winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus) using the GreenLab model

(2010) Alexandra Jullien et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Allometric growth and allocation in forests: a perspective from FLUXNET

(2010) Adam Wolf et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Terrestrial nitrogen feedbacks may accelerate future climate change

(2010) Sönke Zaehle et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Carbon and nitrogen cycle dynamics in the O-CN land surface model: 1. Model description, site-scale evaluation, and sensitivity to parameter estimates

(2010) S. Zaehle et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Increased water-use efficiency during the 20th century did not translate into enhanced tree growth

(2010) Josep Peñuelas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Development and verification of a water and sugar transport model using measured stem diameter variations

(2010) Veerle De Schepper et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Modelling temperature-compensated physiological rates, based on the co-ordination of responses to temperature of developmental processes

(2010) B. Parent et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A model-data intercomparison of CO2exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

(2010) Christopher R. Schwalm et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Sustained enhancement of photosynthesis in mature deciduous forest trees after 8 years of free air CO2 enrichment

(2010) Martin Karl-Friedrich Bader et al.   PLANTA

CO2 enhancement of forest productivity constrained by limited nitrogen availability

(2010) R. J. Norby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Whole-ecosystem labile carbon production in a north temperate deciduous forest

(2009) Christopher M. Gough et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Integration of nitrogen cycle dynamics into the Integrated Science Assessment Model for the study of terrestrial ecosystem responses to global change

(2009) Xiaojuan Yang et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and respiration using a light response curve approach: critical issues and global evaluation

(2009) GITTA LASSLOP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mechanistic scaling of ecosystem function and dynamics in space and time: Ecosystem Demography model version 2

(2009) D. Medvigy et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Evidence of old carbon used to grow new fine roots in a tropical forest

(2009) Rodrigo Vargas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Stoichiometry and Nutrition of Plant Growth in Natural Communities

(2008) Göran I. Ågren   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

TURNER REVIEW No. 15.'Breathing' of the terrestrial biosphere: lessons learned from a global network of carbon dioxide flux measurement systems

(2008) Dennis Baldocchi   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

NITROGEN LIMITATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IS GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED

(2008) David S. LeBauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants

(2008) Peter B. Reich et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS