Empirical evidence for resilience of tropical forest photosynthesis in a warmer world
Empirical evidence for resilience of tropical forest photosynthesis in a warmer world
Marielle N. Smith,T. Taylor,10 Authors,S. Saleska
2020 · DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-00780-2
Nature Plants · 99 Citations
TLDR
A forest mesocosm was used to quantify the sensitivity of tropical gross ecosystem productivity (GEP) to future temperature regimes while constraining VPD by controlling humidity, and both approaches showed consistent, negative sensitivity of GEP to VPD but little direct response to temperature.