Abstract
The relative increase with elevated CO2 of canopy CO2 uptake rate (A), derived from continuous measurements during the day, was examined in full-cover vegetative Lolium perenne canopies after 17 days of regrowth. The stands were grown at ambient (358±50 μmol mol-1) and increased (626±50 μmol mol-1) CO2 concentration in sunlit growth chambers. Over the entire range of temperature and light conditions (which were strongly coupled and increased simultaneously), A was on average twice as large in high compared to ambient CO2. This response (called M=A in high CO2/A in ambient CO2) could not be explained by changes in canopy conductance for CO2 diffusion (GC). In spite of interaction and strong coupling between temperature and light intensity, there was evidence that temperature rather than light determined M. Further, high CO2 treatment was found to alleviate the afternoon depression in A observed in ambient CO2. A temperature optimum shift or/and a larger carbohydrate sink capacity through altered root/shoot ratio are proposed in explanation.
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Abbreviations
- A:
-
CO2 uptake rate
- C350:
-
ambient CO2 treatment
- C600:
-
elevated CO2 treatment
- E:
-
canopy evapotranspiration rate
- GC:
-
canopy conductance for CO2 diffusion
- M:
-
high CO2 modification factor
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Nijs, I., Impens, I. & Van Hecke, P. Diurnal changes in the response of canopy photosynthetic rate to elevated CO2 in a coupled temperature-light environment. Photosynth Res 32, 121–130 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00035946
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