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

Using models to guide field experiments:a prioripredictions for the CO2response of a nutrient- and water-limited native Eucalypt woodland

(2016) Belinda E. Medlyn et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Convergence in relationships between leaf traits, spectra and age across diverse canopy environments and two contrasting tropical forests

(2016) Jin Wu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Seasonal variability of multiple leaf traits captured by leaf spectroscopy at two temperate deciduous forests

(2016) Xi Yang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Quantifying the influences of spectral resolution on uncertainty in leaf trait estimates through a Bayesian approach to RTM inversion

(2016) Alexey N. Shiklomanov et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests

(2016) J. Wu et al.   SCIENCE

Imaging spectroscopy algorithms for mapping canopy foliar chemical and morphological traits and their uncertainties

(2015) Aditya Singh et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Global-scale environmental control of plant photosynthetic capacity

(2015) Ashehad A. Ali et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Combining the [ABA] and net photosynthesis-based model equations of stomatal conductance

(2015) Chris Huntingford et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Computer and remote-sensing infrastructure to enhance large-scale testing of individual-based forest models

(2015) Herman H Shugart et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Temperature acclimation of photosynthesis and respiration: A key uncertainty in the carbon cycle-climate feedback

(2015) Danica L. Lombardozzi et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Observing terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle from space

(2015) David Schimel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A test of the ‘one-point method’ for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field-measured, light-saturated photosynthesis

(2015) Martin G. De Kauwe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A new look at stress: abscisic acid patterns and dynamics at high-resolution

(2015) Alexander M. Jones   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought × CO2interactions in trees: a test of the low-intercellular CO2concentration (Ci) mechanism

(2015) Jeff W. G. Kelly 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

Drought-related tree mortality: addressing the gaps in understanding and prediction

(2015) Patrick Meir et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

An introduction to the NASA Hyperspectral InfraRed Imager (HyspIRI) mission and preparatory activities

(2015) Christine M. Lee et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Remotely estimating photosynthetic capacity, and its response to temperature, in vegetation canopies using imaging spectroscopy

(2015) Shawn P. Serbin et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Quantifying forest canopy traits: Imaging spectroscopy versus field survey

(2015) Gregory P. Asner et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Warming delays autumn declines in photosynthetic capacity in a boreal conifer, Norway spruce (Picea abies)

(2015) Joseph R. Stinziano et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Foliar temperature acclimation reduces simulated carbon sensitivity to climate

(2015) Nicholas G. Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

(2015) Yan-Shih Lin et al.   Nature Climate Change

The EnMAP Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Mission for Earth Observation

(2015) Luis Guanter et al.   Remote Sensing

Carbon dioxide stimulation of photosynthesis in Liquidambar styraciflua is not sustained during a 12-year field experiment

(2015) Jeffrey M. Warren et al.   AoB Plants

Effects of different representations of stomatal conductance response to humidity across the African continent under warmer CO2-enriched climate conditions

(2015) Hisashi Sato et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

The peaked response of transpiration rate to vapour pressure deficit in field conditions can be explained by the temperature optimum of photosynthesis

(2014) Remko A. Duursma et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Plant functional types in Earth system models: past experiences and future directions for application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems

(2014) Stan D. Wullschleger et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Spectroscopic determination of leaf morphological and biochemical traits for northern temperate and boreal tree species

(2014) Shawn P. Serbin et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Simultaneous improvement in productivity, water use, and albedo through crop structural modification

(2014) Darren T. Drewry et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Temperature responses of the Rubisco maximum carboxylase activity across domains of life: phylogenetic signals, trade-offs, and importance for carbon gain

(2014) J. Galmés et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Responses of tree species to heat waves and extreme heat events

(2014) ROBERT TESKEY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Temperature responses of mesophyll conductance differ greatly between species

(2014) SUSANNE von CAEMMERER et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Photoperiod constraints on tree phenology, performance and migration in a warming world

(2014) DANIELLE A. WAY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

A fully traits-based approach to modeling global vegetation distribution

(2014) P. M. van Bodegom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Limits on Yields in the Corn Belt

(2014) D. R. Ort et al.   SCIENCE

Greater Sensitivity to Drought Accompanies Maize Yield Increase in the U.S. Midwest

(2014) D. B. Lobell et al.   SCIENCE

How should we model plant responses to drought? An analysis of stomatal and non-stomatal responses to water stress

(2013) Shuangxi Zhou et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Carbon and water flux responses to physiology by environment interactions: a sensitivity analysis of variation in climate on photosynthetic and stomatal parameters

(2013) William L. Bauerle et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Photosynthetic responses to stress in Mediterranean evergreens: Mechanisms and models

(2013) Ülo Niinemets et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Impacts of elevated CO2concentration on the productivity and surface energy budget of the soybean and maize agroecosystem in the Midwest USA

(2013) Tracy E. Twine et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2: a model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

(2013) Martin G. De Kauwe et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

(2013) Pierre Friedlingstein et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Gaps in knowledge and data driving uncertainty in models of photosynthesis

(2013) Michael C. Dietze   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Controls on seasonal patterns of maximum ecosystem carbon uptake and canopy-scale photosynthetic light response: contributions from both temperature and photoperiod

(2013) Paul C. Stoy et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

The use and misuse of V c,max in Earth System Models

(2013) Alistair Rogers   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Thermal acclimation of photosynthesis: on the importance of adjusting our definitions and accounting for thermal acclimation of respiration

(2013) Danielle A. Way et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Temperature response of photosynthesis in C3, C4, and CAM plants: temperature acclimation and temperature adaptation

(2013) Wataru Yamori et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Asymmetrical effects of mesophyll conductance on fundamental photosynthetic parameters and their relationships estimated from leaf gas exchange measurements

(2013) YING SUN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Environmental and community controls on plant canopy chemistry in a Mediterranean-type ecosystem

(2013) K. M. Dahlin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biochemical photosynthetic responses to temperature: how do interspecific differences compare with seasonal shifts?

(2013) Y.-S. Lin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Attributing the increase in atmospheric CO2 to emitters and absorbers

(2013) P. Ciais et al.   Nature Climate Change

Facilitating feedbacks between field measurements and ecosystem models

(2012) David S. LeBauer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Global nutrient limitation in terrestrial vegetation

(2012) Joshua B. Fisher et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Effects of foliage clumping on the estimation of global terrestrial gross primary productivity

(2012) Jing M. Chen et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

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

Rubisco activity is associated with photosynthetic thermotolerance in a wild rice (Oryza meridionalis)

(2012) Andrew P. Scafaro et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Current methods for estimating the rate of photorespiration in leaves

(2012) F. A. Busch   PLANT BIOLOGY

Variable mesophyll conductance revisited: theoretical background and experimental implications

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

Mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2: An unappreciated central player in photosynthesis

(2012) Jaume Flexas et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Toward a Mechanistic Modeling of Nitrogen Limitation on Vegetation Dynamics

(2012) Chonggang Xu et al.   PLoS One

Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling

(2012) W. L. Bauerle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why does leaf nitrogen decline within tree canopies less rapidly than light? An explanation from optimization subject to a lower bound on leaf mass per area

(2012) R. C. Dewar et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Optimization of foliage photosynthetic capacity in tree canopies: towards identifying missing constraints

(2012) U. Niinemets   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Temperature responses of leaf net photosynthesis: the role of component processes

(2012) Y.-S. Lin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Towards an improved and more flexible representation of water stress in coupled photosynthesis–stomatal conductance models

(2011) Gregorio Egea et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Modeling energy and carbon fluxes in a heterogeneous oak woodland: A three-dimensional approach

(2011) Hideki Kobayashi et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Improving the predictability of global CO2assimilation rates under climate change

(2011) T. Ziehn et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Leaf optical properties reflect variation in photosynthetic metabolism and its sensitivity to temperature

(2011) Shawn P. Serbin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

How well do stomatal conductance models perform on closing plant carbon budgets? A test using seedlings grown under current and elevated air temperatures

(2011) Danielle A. Way et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

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

Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance

(2010) BELINDA E. MEDLYN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Terrestrial plant production and climate change

(2010) A. D. Friend   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

(2010) C. Beer et al.   SCIENCE

Differential responses to changes in growth temperature between trees from different functional groups and biomes: a review and synthesis of data

(2010) D. A. Way et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

A stomatal optimization theory to describe the effects of atmospheric CO2 on leaf photosynthesis and transpiration

(2009) Gabriel Katul et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

(2009) JENS KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Thermal plasticity of photosynthesis: the role of acclimation in forest responses to a warming climate

(2009) CARLA A. GUNDERSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The importance of mesophyll conductance in regulating forest ecosystem productivity during drought periods

(2009) TREVOR KEENAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quantifying Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

(2009) J. M. Gregory et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Importance of mesophyll diffusion conductance in estimation of plant photosynthesis in the field

(2009) Ülo Niinemets et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Elevated CO2 effects on plant carbon, nitrogen, and water relations: six important lessons from FACE

(2009) Andrew D. B. Leakey et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink

(2009) Lina M. Mercado et al.   NATURE

Xeml Lab: a tool that supports the design of experiments at a graphical interface and generates computer-readable metadata files, which capture information about genotypes, growth conditions, environmental perturbations and sampling strategy

(2009) JAN HANNEMANN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Opinion: Stomatal responses to light and CO2depend on the mesophyll

(2009) KEITH A. MOTT   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Will Elevated Carbon Dioxide Concentration Amplify the Benefits of Nitrogen Fixation in Legumes?

(2009) A. Rogers et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Photosynthesis under drought and salt stress: regulation mechanisms from whole plant to cell

(2008) M. M. Chaves et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Seasonal patterns of tropical forest leaf area index and CO2exchange

(2008) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Characterization of the water soluble soil organic pool following the rewetting of dry soil in a drought-prone tallgrass prairie

(2008) Mark A. Williams et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY