Plant population density is an important variable in agronomy and forestry and offers an
experimental way to better understand plant–plant competition. We made a meta‐analysis of …

Extensive within‐canopy light gradients importantly affect the photosynthetic productivity of
leaves in different canopy positions and lead to light‐dependent increases in foliage …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the physiological causes and ecological
consequences of inherent variation in growth rate among higher plants. When grown under …

The Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) overestimates gross primary production
(GPP) compared with data‐driven estimates and other process models. We use global …

Ecosystem simulation models use descriptive input parameters to establish the physiology,
biochemistry, structure, and allocation patterns of vegetation functional types, or biomes. For …

Nitrogen (N) is often considered to be the most important limiting factor, after water
deficiency, for biomass production in natural ecosystems. In arable and forage crop**, N …

This review provides a theoretical framework and global maps for relations between
nitrogen-(N)-nutrition and stomatal conductance, gs, at the leaf scale and fluxes of water …

Leaves and herbaceous leaf canopies photosynthesize efficiently although the distribution
of light, the ultimate resource of photosynthesis, is very biased in these systems. As has …

Climate models have evolved into Earth system models with representation of the physics,
chemistry, and biology of terrestrial ecosystems. This companion book to Gordon Bonan's …

1. Net primary production (NPP) by terrestrial ecosystems appears to be proportional to
absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (APAR) on a seasonal and annual basis. This …