Climate-driven vegetation mortality is occurring globally and is predicted to increase in the
near future. The expected climate feedbacks of regional-scale mortality events have …

To grow, an organism must respire substrates to produce C-skeleton intermediates, usable
energy (ie ATP), and reducing power [ie NAD (P) H] to support biosynthesis and related …

Events of regional-scale vegetation mortality appear to be increasing in a variety of biomes
throughout the Earth and are frequently associated with increased temperatures, droughts …

The global environment is constantly changing and our planet is getting warmer at an
unprecedented rate. The study of the carbon cycle, and soil respiration, is a very active area …

Quantitative integration of the literature on the effect of elevated CO 2 on woody plants is
important to aid our understanding of forest health in coming decades and to better predict …

Soil surface CO2 flux (RS) is overwhelmingly the product of respiration by roots (autotrophic
respiration, RA) and soil organisms (heterotrophic respiration, RH). Many studies have …

Soil temperature can influence the functioning of roots in many ways. If soil moisture and
nutrient availability are adequate, rates of root length extension and root mortality increase …

Summary 1 We introduce a hydraulic soil‐plant model with water uptake from two soil layers;
one a pulse‐dominated shallow soil layer, the other a deeper soil layer with continuous, but …

Using a database of 2510 measurements from 287 species, we assessed whether general
relationships exist between mass‐based dark respiration rate and nitrogen concentration for …

Contents Summary 670 I. Introduction 671 II. Principle 1–Plant respiration performs three
distinct functions 673 III. Principle 2–Metabolic pathway flexibility underlies plant respiratory …