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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 24, Issue 7, Pages 578-586Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.04.003
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- Campus France through a Make Our Planet Great Again Visiting Fellowship
- Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub - Australian Government National Environmental Science Program
- French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the program Investissements d'Avenir (Lab of Excellence ARBRE) [ANR-11-LABX-0002-01]
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Human-caused CO2 emissions over the past century have caused the climate of the Earth to warm and have directly impacted on the functioning of terrestrial plants. We examine the global response of terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) to the historic change in atmospheric CO2. The GPP of the terrestrial biosphere has increased steadily, keeping pace remarkably in proportion to the rise in atmospheric CO2. Water-use efficiency, namely the ratio of CO2 uptake by photosynthesis to water loss by transpiration, has increased as a direct leaf-level effect of rising CO2. This has allowed an increase in global leaf area, which has conspired with stimulation of photosynthesis per unit leaf area to produce a maximal response of the terrestrial biosphere to rising atmospheric CO2 and contemporary climate change.
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