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Open AccessUrban greening with shrubs can supercharge invertebrate abundance and diversity
In urban areas, diverse and complex habitats for biodiversity are often lacking. This lack of diversity not only compromises essential ecological processes, such as pollination and nutrient cycling, but also d...
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Climate change increases global risk to urban forests
Climate change threatens the health and survival of urban trees and the various benefits they deliver to urban inhabitants. Here, we show that 56% and 65% of species in 164 cities across 78 countries are curre...
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Open AccessNocturnal plant respiration is under strong non-temperature control
Most biological rates depend on the rate of respiration. Temperature variation is typically considered the main driver of daily plant respiration rates, assuming a constant daily respiration rate at a set temp...
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Open AccessAusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora
We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field camp...
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The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment
Atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment (eCO2) can enhance plant carbon uptake and growth1–5, thereby providing an important negative feedback to climate change by slowing the rate of increase of the atmospheric CO
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An extreme heatwave enhanced the xanthophyll de-epoxidation state in leaves of Eucalyptus trees grown in the field
Heatwaves are becoming more frequent with climate warming and can impact tree growth and reproduction. Eucalyptus parramattensis can cope with an extreme heatwave in the field via transpiratory cooling and enhanc...
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Three years of soil respiration in a mature eucalypt woodland exposed to atmospheric CO2 enrichment
The rate of CO2 diffusion from soils to the atmosphere (soil CO2 efflux, soil respiration; Rsoil) reflects the integrated activity of roots and microbes and is among the largest fluxes of the terrestrial global C...
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Open AccessImplications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate
Land-atmosphere exchanges influence atmospheric CO2. Emphasis has been on describing photosynthetic CO2 uptake, but less on respiration losses. New global datasets describe upper canopy dark respiration (R ...
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Rhizosphere-driven increase in nitrogen and phosphorus availability under elevated atmospheric CO2 in a mature Eucalyptus woodland
Rhizosphere processes are integral to carbon sequestration by terrestrial ecosystems in response to rising concentrations of atmospheric CO2. Yet, the nature and magnitude of rhizosphere responses to elevated CO2
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Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil
Experimental evidence from a mature, phosphorous-limited, eucalypt forest finds that aboveground productivity was not significantly stimulated by elevated CO2. Findings suggest that this effect may be limited acr...
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Open AccessCircadian rhythms have significant effects on leaf-to-canopy scale gas exchange under field conditions
Molecular clocks drive oscillations in leaf photosynthesis, stomatal conductance, and other cell and leaf-level processes over ~24 h under controlled laboratory conditions. The influence of such circadian regu...
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Controls over leaf and litter calcium concentrations among temperate trees
Four-fold variation in leaf-litter Ca concentration among 14 tree species growing in a common garden in central Poland was linked to variation in soil pH, exchangeable Ca, soil base saturation, forest floor tu...
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Does the exception prove the rule? (Reply)
Enquist et al.1 raise several points that they claim cast doubt on our findings and interpretation2 regarding whole-plant relations of respiration, R, with plant m...
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Interannual growth response of Norway spruce to climate along an altitudinal gradient in the Tatra Mountains, Poland
Ring-width chronologies of Picea abies (L.) Karst. from ten sites in the Tatra Mountains, Poland, were developed to explore growth/climate responses in stands along an altitudinal gradient ranging from 839 to 146...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Universal scaling of respiratory metabolism, size and nitrogen in plants
Nature 439, 457–461 (2006) It has been drawn to our attention that the wording used in the first sentence after equation (1) is ambiguous. For the example used to illustrate ¾ power scaling, we implied that if...
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Universal scaling of respiratory metabolism, size and nitrogen in plants
It's almost a law of nature: as animals and plants vary in size, their metabolism varies (or ‘scales’) at a predictable but different rate, a phenomenon called allometry. Less certain is the precise rate at wh...
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Response of Plant Respiration to Changes in Temperature: Mechanisms and Consequences of Variations in Q10 Values and Acclimation
The effects of short- and long-term changes in temperature on plant respiration (R) are reviewed. We discuss the methods available for quantifying the short- and long-term temperature-dependence of R. The extent ...
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The worldwide leaf economics spectrum
Bringing together leaf trait data spanning 2,548 species and 175 sites we describe, for the first time at global scale, a universal spectrum of leaf economics consisting of key chemical, structural and physiol...
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Legume presence increases photosynthesis and N concentrations of co-occurring non-fixers but does not modulate their responsiveness to carbon dioxide enrichment
Legumes, with the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen (N), may help alleviate the N limitations thought to constrain plant community response to elevated concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). To add...
