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CO2 Fertilization: The Great Uncertainty in Future Vegetation Development

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Vegetation Dynamics & Global Change

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Even the most conservative estimates of the future development of the global CO2 level forsee a doubling of this essential plant “food” in the next century. The investigation of plant responses to these enhanced supplies of CO2 is perhaps one of the greatest challenges in ecology. In the words of B.R. Strain, “few endeavors could be more important than the study of the ecological and evolutionary effects of another century of complex, but unidirectional, environmental changes affecting the entire globe” Strain 1987). The steady increase of atmospheric CO2 is perhaps the most significant of these global changes.

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  1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ERL-C, 200 SW 35 Street, Corvallis, OR, 97333, USA

    Allen M. Solomon

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA

    Herman H. Shugart

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Körner, C. (1993). CO2 Fertilization: The Great Uncertainty in Future Vegetation Development. In: Solomon, A.M., Shugart, H.H. (eds) Vegetation Dynamics & Global Change. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2816-6_3

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