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| Titel |
The impact of elevated CO2 on the energy and water balance over terrestrial surfaces |
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Michael Roderick, Randall Donohue, Yuting Yang, Tim McVicar |
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EGU General Assembly 2017
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en
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In: GRA - Volume 19 (2017) |
| Datensatznummer |
250137684
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2017-475.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| When we think of the enhanced greenhouse effect, the tendency is to focus on the effects on near-surface air temperature and the consequence impacts. On that approach the underlying cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect, that is, increasing atmospheric CO2 tends to be ignored. But laboratory experiments have long shown that increasing CO2 has a large impact on vegetation gas exchange, by, for example, increasing water use efficiency of photosynthesis. This tends to be a forgotten factor in the meteorological and hydrologic sciences. In this talk we outline some key expected effects of atmospheric CO2 on leaf-, canopy- and catchment-scale fluxes and compare those expectations with both site- (e.g. FACE) and catchment-scale observations. We find the expected effects have been observed over undisturbed vegetation. However, we find the effects of elevated CO2 are more complex in disturbed vegetation that is actively regrowing, This finding suggests the disturbance history will be a key factor on the canopy- and catchment-scale responses to elevated CO2. |
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