Cerrado vegetation and global change: the role of functional types, resource availability and disturbance in regulating plant community responses to rising CO2 levels …

AC Franco, DR Rossatto… - … and Experimental Plant …, 2014 - Springer
The cerrado is the most extensive savanna ecosystem of South America and a biodiversity
hotspot, harboring a diverse flora (> 7,000 species) with high levels of endemism. More than …

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

J Peñuelas, JG Canadell… - Global Ecology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The goals of this study are:(1) to determine whether increasing atmospheric CO2
concentrations and changing climate increased intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE, as …

Trends in tree growth and intrinsic water-use efficiency in the tropics under elevated CO2 and climate change

M Rahman, M Islam, A Gebrekirstos, A Bräuning - Trees, 2019 - Springer
Key message Increasing water-use efficiency, due to rising atmospheric CO 2, did not
stimulate radial growth in tropical trees, probably because negative impacts of changing …

Rising CO2 drives divergence in water use efficiency of evergreen and deciduous plants

WK Soh, C Yiotis, M Murray, A Parnell, IJ Wright… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE), defined as the ratio of photosynthesis to stomatal
conductance, is a key variable in plant physiology and ecology. Yet, how rising atmospheric …

Probing for the influence of atmospheric CO2 and climate change on forest ecosystems across biomes

LCR Silva, M Anand - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Rising atmospheric CO 2 and climate warming have induced changes in tree growth
and intrinsic water‐use efficiency (iWUE) world‐wide, but the long‐term impact of such …

Tree height strongly affects estimates of water-use efficiency responses to climate and CO2 using isotopes

RJW Brienen, E Gloor, S Clerici, R Newton… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Various studies report substantial increases in intrinsic water-use efficiency (W i), estimated
using carbon isotopes in tree rings, suggesting trees are gaining increasingly more carbon …

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

L ANDREU‐HAYLES, O Planells… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the tree growth and physiological response of five pine forest stands in
relation to changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration (ca) and climate in the Iberian …

Recent Widespread Tree Growth Decline Despite Increasing Atmospheric CO2

LCR Silva, M Anand, MD Leithead - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background The synergetic effects of recent rising atmospheric CO2 and temperature are
expected to favor tree growth in boreal and temperate forests. However, recent …

Linking variation in intrinsic water‐use efficiency to isohydricity: a comparison at multiple spatiotemporal scales

K Yi, JT Maxwell, MK Wenzel, DT Roman… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Species‐specific responses of plant intrinsic water‐use efficiency (iWUE) to multiple
environmental drivers associated with climate change, including soil moisture (θ), vapor …

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

CA Nock, PJ Baker, W Wanek, A Leis… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide [CO2] can accelerate tree growth by stimulating
photosynthesis and increasing intrinsic water‐use efficiency (iWUE). Little evidence exists …