Water Use Efficiency as a Constraint and Target for Improving the Resilience and Productivity of C3 and C4 Crops

ADB Leakey, JN Ferguson, CP Pignon… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The ratio of plant carbon gain to water use, known as water use efficiency (WUE), has long
been recognized as a key constraint on crop production and an important target for crop …

Roots: evolutionary origins and biogeochemical significance

JA Raven, D Edwards - Journal of experimental botany, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Roots, as organs distinguishable developmentally and anatomically from shoots (other than
by occurrence of stomata and sporangia on above‐ground organs), evolved in the …

Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years

GL Foster, DL Royer, DJ Lunt - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
The evolution of Earth's climate on geological timescales is largely driven by variations in
the magnitude of total solar irradiance (TSI) and changes in the greenhouse gas content of …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] The Phanerozoic carbon cycle: CO2 and O2

RA Berner - 2004 - books.google.com
The term" carbon cycle" is normally thought to mean those processes that govern the
present-day transfer of carbon between life, the atmosphere, and the oceans. This book …

Fossil plants and global warming at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

JC McElwain, DJ Beerling, FI Woodward - Science, 1999 - science.org
The Triassic-Jurassic boundary marks a major faunal mass extinction, but records of
accompanying environmental changes are limited. Paleobotanical evidence indicates a …

Stomatal density and stomatal index as indicators of paleoatmospheric CO2 concentration

DL Royer - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2001 - Elsevier
A growing number of studies use the plant species-specific inverse relationship between
atmospheric CO2 concentration and stomatal density (SD) or stomatal index (SI) as a proxy …

[PDF][PDF] Primary productivity of planet earth: biological determinants and physical constraints in terrestrial and aquatic habitats

RJ Geider, EH Delucia, PG Falkowski, AC Finzi… - Global change …, 2001 - academia.edu
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK,
2Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, 3Institute of …

The Posidonia Shale (Lower Toarcian) of SW-Germany: an oxygen-depleted ecosystem controlled by sea level and palaeoclimate

HJ Röhl, A Schmid-Röhl, W Oschmann… - Palaeogeography …, 2001 - Elsevier
The Lower Toarcian Posidonia Shale is famous for its excellently preserved fossils and its
high amount of organic matter (up to 16%). Both quality of preservation and accumulation of …

Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial–interglacial cycles

IP Montañez, JC McElwain, CJ Poulsen, JD White… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Earth's last icehouse, 300 million years ago, is considered the longest-lived and most acute
of the past half-billion years, characterized by expansive continental ice sheets, and possibly …

[HTML][HTML] The impacts of land plant evolution on Earth's climate and oxygenation state–An interdisciplinary review

TW Dahl, SKM Arens - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The Paleozoic emergence of terrestrial plants has been linked to a stepwise increase in
Earth's O 2 levels and a cooling of Earth's climate by drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 …