Explaining Global Increases in Water Use Efficiency: Why Have We Overestimated Responses to Rising Atmospheric CO2 in Natural Forest Ecosystems?

Tree ring evidence for limited direct CO2fertilization of forests over the 20th century

(2010) Ze'ev Gedalof et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Long-term increases in intrinsic water-use efficiency do not lead to increased stem growth in a tropical monsoon forest in western Thailand

(2010) CHARLES A. NOCK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long tree-ring chronologies reveal 20th century increases in water-use efficiency but no enhancement of tree growth at five Iberian pine forests

(2010) LAIA ANDREU-HAYLES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Inhibits Nitrate Assimilation in Wheat and Arabidopsis

(2010) A. J. Bloom et al.   SCIENCE

Past century changes inAraucaria angustifolia(Bertol.) Kuntze water use efficiency and growth in forest and grassland ecosystems of southern Brazil: implications for forest expansion

(2009) LUCAS C. R. SILVA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Acclimation of leaf hydraulic conductance and stomatal conductance ofPinus taeda(loblolly pine) to long-term growth in elevated CO2(free-air CO2enrichment) and N-fertilization

(2009) JEAN-CHRISTOPHE DOMEC et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere

(2008) Danny McCarroll et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Twentieth century changes of tree-ring δ13C at the southern range-edge of Fagus sylvatica: increasing water-use efficiency does not avoid the growth decline induced by warming at low altitudes

(2008) JOSEP PEÑUELAS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY