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Plant Responses to the Gaseous Environment pp 39–54Cite as

Interactive effects of temperature and atmospheric CO2 on physiology and growth

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Since the 1970’s, the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration is an undeniable reality (Elliott et al. 1985) but its consequences on climate are still somewhat controversial. Throughout geological time, CO2 and temperature have always varied in parallel. The best evidence for this comes from the analysis of gas bubbles trapped in a 2 km long ice core, known as the Vostock core, which showed that fluctuations in temperature and CO2 concentration have been tightly coupled over the past 160 000 years — the warmer the temperature, the higher the CO2 concentration (Houghton & Woodwell 1989). This correlation, however, does not establish whether changes in climate caused the changes in CO2 or if they resulted from them. A whole body of literature uses meteorological models to predict the effect of a doubling in atmospheric CO2 concentration on global climate. The general conscencus emerging from these studies is that a doubling in atmospheric CO2 concentration may lead to an average warming of between 3.5 and 4.2°K (Schlesinger 1986).

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology & Weed Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 24061-0331, USA

    Ruth G. Alscher

  2. Division of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK

    Alan R. Wellburn

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Potvin, C. (1994). Interactive effects of temperature and atmospheric CO2 on physiology and growth. In: Alscher, R.G., Wellburn, A.R. (eds) Plant Responses to the Gaseous Environment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1294-9_3

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