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Titel
Global CO₂ rise leads to reduced maximum stomatal conductance in Florida vegetation
Ist Teil von
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2011-03, Vol.108 (10), p.4035-4040
Ort / Verlag
United States: National Academy of Sciences
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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  • A principle response of C3 plants to increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO₂ (CO₂) is to reduce transpirational water loss by decreasing stomatal conductance (gs) and simultaneously increase assimilation rates. Via this adaptation, vegetation has the ability to alter hydrology and climate. Therefore, it is important to determine the adaptation of vegetation to the expected anthropogenic rise in CO₂. Short-term stomatal opening-closing responses of vegetation to increasing CO₂ are described by free-air carbon enrichments growth experiments, and evolutionary adaptations are known from the geological record. However, to date the effects of decadal to centennial CO₂ perturbations on stomatal conductance are still largely unknown. Here we reconstruct a 34% (±12%) reduction in maximum stomatal conductance (gsmax) per 100 ppm CO₂ increase as a result of the adaptation in stomatal density (D) and pore size at maximal stomatal opening (amax) of nine common species from Florida over the past 150 y. The species-specific gsmax values are determined by different evolutionary development, whereby the angiosperms sampled generally have numerous small stomata and high gsmax, and the conifers and fern have few large stomata and lower gsmax. Although angiosperms and conifers use different D and amax adaptation strategies, our data show a coherent response in gsmax to CO₂ rise of the past century. Understanding these adaptations of C3 plants to rising CO₂ after decadal to centennial environmental changes is essential for quantification of plant physiological forcing at timescales relevant for global warming, and they are likely to continue until the limits of their phenotypic plasticity are reached.
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISSN: 0027-8424
eISSN: 1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100371108
Titel-ID: cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3054011

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