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A Theory of Gradient Analysis

article by Cajo J.F. Ter Braak & I. Colin Prentice published 1988 in Advances in Ecological Research

A climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystems

scientific article

A comprehensive benchmarking system for evaluating global vegetation models

article

A comprehensive benchmarking system for evaluating global vegetation models

A continental-scale assessment of variability in leaf traits: Within species, across sites and between seasons

scientific article published in 2018

A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere-biosphere system

article

A first-order analysis of the potential rôle of CO2 fertilization to affect the global carbon budget: a comparison of four terrestrial biosphere models

article

A framework for benchmarking land models

article

A global model for the uptake of atmospheric hydrogen by soils

A model analysis of climate and CO<sub>2</sub> controls on tree growth in a semi-arid woodland

A new method based on surface‐sample pollen data for reconstructing palaeovegetation patterns

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

scientific article

A simulation model for the transient effects of climate change on forest landscapes

article

A test of the 'one-point method' for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field-measured, light-saturated photosynthesis

scientific article

A theory of plant function helps to explain leaf-trait and productivity responses to elevation

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

A worldwide analysis of trends in water-balance evapotranspiration

scholarly article

Acclimation of leaf respiration consistent with optimal photosynthetic capacity

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

An improved statistical approach for reconstructing past climates from biotic assemblages

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes, terrestrial carbon balance, and vegetation dynamics

article

An introduction to the European Terrestrial Ecosystem Modelling Activity

scientific article published in 2008

Assessing the vulnerability of blanket peat to climate change using an ensemble of statistical bioclimatic envelope models

article

Atmospheric dryness reduces photosynthesis along a large range of soil water deficits

scientific article published on 21 February 2022

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

publication published on 30 September 2021

Author Correction: Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

correction of a scholarly article

Balancing the costs of carbon gain and water transport: testing a new theoretical framework for plant functional ecology

scientific article

Bioclimatic envelope model of climate change impacts on blanket peatland distribution in Great Britain

article

Biophsyical constraints on gross primary production by the terrestrial biosphere

scientific article published on 31 October 2014

Biosphere dynamics: Challenges for Earth system models

article

Blanket peat biome endangered by climate change

scientific article published on 30 August 2012

Bridging Drought Experiment and Modeling: Representing the Differential Sensitivities of Leaf Gas Exchange to Drought

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

British congress for IVSA

scientific article published on 01 August 1987

C-quest in the Amazon Basin

scientific article published in Nature

CO2inhibition of global terrestrial isoprene emissions: Potential implications for atmospheric chemistry

scholarly article

Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the Twentieth Century: Analyses of CO2, climate and land use effects with four process-based ecosystem models

article

Carbon–climate feedbacks: a review of model and observation based estimates

article

Causal relationships versus emergent patterns in the global controls of fire frequency

scientific article published in 2014

Changes in biomass allocation buffer low CO2 effects on tree growth during the last glaciation.

scientific article

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

scholarly article

Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia

Climate change and the British Uplands: evidence for decision-making

article

Climate change threats to plant diversity in Europe

scientific article

Climate changes in interior semi-arid Spain from the last interglacial to the late Holocene

Climate model benchmarking with glacial and mid-Holocene climates

article

Climate versus carbon dioxide controls on biomass burning: a model analysis of the glacial–interglacial contrast

article

Climate-driven expansion of blanket bogs in Britain during the Holocene

Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

scientific article published in 2013

Climatic Control of the Distribution and Abundance of Beech (Fagus L.) in Europe and North America

scientific article published on 16 June 2006

Climatic control of the high-latitude vegetation greening trend and Pinatubo effect

scientific article published on May 2002

Climatic controls on Holocene lake-level changes in Europe

article

Comment on "The global tree restoration potential"

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Comparing and evaluating process-based ecosystem model predictions of carbon and water fluxes in major European forest biomes

article

Comprehensive ecosystem model-data synthesis using multiple data sets at two temperate forest free-air CO2enrichment experiments: Model performance at ambient CO2concentration

article

Constraining global methane emissions and uptake by ecosystems

scientific article published in 2011

Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits: confronting optimality theory with field measurements

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Corrigendum to "The influence of vegetation, fire spread and fire behaviour on biomass burning and trace gas emissions: results from a process-based model" published in Biogeosciences, 7, 1991-2011, doi:10.5194/bg-7-1991-2010, 2010

article

Corrigendum: Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake.

scientific article published on 14 July 2017

Corrigendum: Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance

correction of a scholarly article

Data-based modelling and environmental sensitivity of vegetation in China

scientific article published on 4 September 2013

Description and simulation of tree-layer composition and size distributions in a primaeval Picea-Pinus forest

scientific article published in April 1987

Do land surface models need to include differential plant species responses to drought? Examining model predictions across a mesic-xeric gradient in Europe

article

Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Dust sources and deposition during the last glacial maximum and current climate: A comparison of model results with paleodata from ice cores and marine sediments

article

Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling: Quantifying Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Large-Scale Environmental Change

article

Ecophysiological and bioclimatic foundations for a global plant functional classification

article

Ecosystem C and N cycle interactions–diverse model representations and divergent model predictions versus collective empirical constraints

conference paper presented et EGU2023

Ecosystem Photosynthesis in Land‐Surface Models: A First‐Principles Approach Incorporating Acclimation

scientific article published on 06 December 2021

Ecosystem dynamics based on plankton functional types for global ocean biogeochemistry models

scientific article (publication date: 13 October 2005)

Ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 governed by plant-soil interactions and the cost of nitrogen acquisition

scientific article

Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe

scientific article published on 27 October 2005

Eco‐evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land‐surface models

scientific article published on 16 June 2021

Erratum: Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia

scholarly article published in Nature Geoscience

Erratum: Untangling the confusion around land carbon science and climate change mitigation policy

scholarly article by Brendan Mackey et al published September 2013 in Nature Climate Change

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2 Enrichment studies

scientific article

Evaluation of biospheric components in Earth system models using modern and palaeo-observations: the state-of-the-art

scientific article published in 2013

Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model

article

Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models through simulations of the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2: First results of a model intercomparison study

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Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models with atmospheric CO2measurements: Results from transient simulations considering increasing CO2, climate, and land-use effects

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Evidence of a universal scaling relationship for leaf CO2 drawdown along an aridity gradient

scientific article

Evolution of isoprene emission capacity in plants.

scientific article

Fire in the Earth system

scientific article

Forest production efficiency increases with growth temperature

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2 : a model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

scientific article

From biota to chemistry and climate: towards a comprehensive description of trace gas exchange between the biosphere and atmosphere

scientific article published in 2010

Functional trait variation related to gap dynamics in tropical moist forests: A vegetation modelling perspective

scientific article published in 2018

Global climate and nutrient controls of photosynthetic capacity

scientific article published on 12 April 2021

Global climatic drivers of leaf size.

scientific article published on September 2017

Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research

scientific article published in 2022

Global decadal variability of plant carbon isotope discrimination and its link to gross primary production

scientific article published on 09 October 2021

Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates

scholarly article by Vincent Maire et al published 7 April 2015 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Global mapping of potential natural vegetation: an assessment of machine learning algorithms for estimating land potential

article

Global photosynthetic capacity is optimized to the environment

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

article

Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Global variation in the fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to photosynthesis

scientific article published on 11 August 2021

Global vegetation and terrestrial carbon cycle changes after the last ice age.

scientific article

Global warming feedbacks on terrestrial carbon uptake under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Emission Scenarios

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Growth enhancement due to global atmospheric change as predicted by terrestrial ecosystem models: consistent with US forest inventory data

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Historical changes in the stomatal limitation of photosynthesis: empirical support for an optimality principle

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Holocene climates of the Iberian Peninsula: pollen-based reconstructions of changes in the west–east gradient of temperature and moisture

scientific article published in 2023

Holocene vegetation dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean region: Old controversies addressed by a new analysis

scientific article published in 2023

How has climate responded to natural perturbations?

How should we model plant responses to drought? An analysis of stomatal and non-stomatal responses to water stress

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Impact of climate variability on present and Holocene vegetation: A model-based study

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Impact of vegetation and preferential source areas on global dust aerosol: Results from a model study

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Implementing plant hydraulic architecture within the LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

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Improved simulation of fire-vegetation interactions in the Land surface Processes and eXchanges dynamic global vegetation model (LPX-Mv1)

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Improved simulation of fire–vegetation interactions in the Land surface Processes and eXchanges dynamic global vegetation model (LPX-Mv1)

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Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on global terrestrial biodiversity

scientific article

Is NPP proportional to GPP? Waring's hypothesis 20 years on

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Isoprene emissions track the seasonal cycle of canopy temperature, not primary production: evidence from remote sensing

scientific article published on 02 July 2014

Land surface feedbacks and palaeomonsoons in northern Africa

scholarly article

Land-surface evapotranspiration derived from a first-principles primary production model

scientific article published in 2021

Large inert carbon pool in the terrestrial biosphere during the Last Glacial Maximum

Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

article

Leaf morphological traits as adaptations to multiple climate gradients

scientific article published on 22 March 2022

Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate

article

Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function

scientific article published in 2022

Lessons Learned from IPCC AR4: Scientific Developments Needed to Understand, Predict, and Respond to Climate Change

scholarly article by Sarah J. Doherty et al published April 2009 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Mediterranean vegetation, lake levels and palaeoclimate at the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article published in Nature

Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

scholarly article

Mid-Holocene and glacial-maximum vegetation geography of the northern continents and Africa

article

Mid-Holocene climates of the Americas: a dynamical response to changed seasonality

scholarly article

Model inter-comparison between statistical and dynamic model assessments of the long-term stability of blanket peat in Great Britain (1940–2099)

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Modeling fire and the terrestrial carbon balance

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Modelling Global Vegetation Patterns and Terrestrial Carbon Storage at the Last Glacial Maximum

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Modelling terrestrial nitrous oxide emissions and implications for climate feedback

scientific article published on August 24, 2012

Modelling the demand for new nitrogen fixation by terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published in 2017

Modelling the vegetation of China using the process-based equilibrium terrestrial biosphere model BIOME3

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Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

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Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO₂ fertilization effect

scientific article

N<sub>2</sub>O changes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the preindustrial – Part 2: terrestrial N<sub>2</sub>O emissions and carbon–nitrogen cycle interactions

scientific article published on 8 July 2020

N<sub>2</sub>O changes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the preindustrial – Part II: Terrestrial N<sub>2</sub>O emissions constrain carbon-nitrogen interactions

Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

scientific article

Observed and modelled historical trends in the water-use efficiency of plants and ecosystems

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

article

Optimality-based modelling of climate impacts on global potential wheat yield

scientific article published on 08 October 2021

Orbital variations, climate and paleoecology

scientific article published on July 1, 1989

Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

P-model v1.0: an optimality-based light use efficiency model for simulating ecosystem gross primary production

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

Palaeoecology and plant population dynamics

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

Palaeovegetation in China during the late Quaternary: Biome reconstructions based on a global scheme of plant functional types

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Palaeovegetation of China: a pollen data-based synthesis for the mid-Holocene and last glacial maximum

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Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks

scientific article published in 2022

Pattern and Process and the Dynamics of Forest Structure: A Simulation Approach

scientific article published in June 1990

Photosynthetic responses to altitude: an explanation based on optimality principles.

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

Plant respiration: Controlled by photosynthesis or biomass?

scientific article published on 26 October 2019

Pollen-based biome reconstructions for China at 0 and 6000 years

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Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: a global synthesis

scholarly article

Pollen-based reconstructions of Holocene climate trends in the eastern Mediterranean region

scientific article published in 2023

Pollen-based reconstructions of biome distributions for Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific (SEAPAC region) at 0, 6000 and 18,000 14C yr BP

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Precipitation scaling with temperature in warm and cold climates: An analysis of CMIP5 simulations

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Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

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Present-day and mid-Holocene biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from the former Soviet Union and Mongolia

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Primary production in forests and grasslands of China: contrasting environmental responses of light- and water-use efficiency models

scientific article published on 22 November 2012

Primary productivity of planet earth: biological determinants and physical constraints in terrestrial and aquatic habitats

article

Process and production

scientific article published in Nature

Process-based estimates of terrestrial ecosystem isoprene emissions: incorporating the effects of a direct CO 2 -isoprene interaction

scholarly article

Projected Changes in Terrestrial Carbon Storage in Europe under Climate and Land-use Change, 1990–2100

article

Quantifying climatic influences on tree-ring width

Quantifying leaf-trait covariation and its controls across climates and biomes

scientific article published in 2018

Quantifying soil moisture impacts on light use efficiency across biomes.

scientific article published on 31 March 2018

Quantitative Interpretation of Fossil Pollen Spectra: Dissimilarity Coefficients and the Method of Modern Analogs

scholarly article

RETRACTED ARTICLE: A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to increasing CO2

retracted scientific article

Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake.

scientific article

Reconstruction of Holocene Precipitation Patterns in Europe Using Pollen and Lake-Level Data

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Reduced streamflow in water-stressed climates consistent with CO2 effects on vegetation

article published in 2015

Relationships between human population density and burned area at continental and global scales

scientific article

Reliable, robust and realistic: the three R's of next-generation land-surface modelling

scholarly article

Response to Comment on "Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect".

scientific article published on January 2017

Responses of leaf traits to climatic gradients: adaptive variation versus compositional shifts

article

Retraction Note: A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to increasing CO2

scientific article published on 30 May 2022

Role of zooplankton dynamics for Southern Ocean phytoplankton biomass and global biogeochemical cycles

article

Satellite based estimates underestimate the effect of CO2 fertilization on net primary productivity

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Sensitivity of a dynamic global vegetation model to climate and atmospheric CO2

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Short-term water stress impacts on stomatal, mesophyll and biochemical limitations to photosynthesis differ consistently among tree species from contrasting climates

scientific article

Simple Process-Led Algorithms for Simulating Habitats (SPLASH v.1.0): Robust Indices of Radiation, Evapotranspiration and Plant-Available Moisture

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Simple process-led algorithms for simulating habitats (SPLASH v.1.0): robust indices of radiation, evapotranspiration and plant-available moisture

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Simulation of Transient Responses to Climate Change in Forested Landscapes

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Simulation of tree-ring widths with a model for primary production, carbon allocation, and growth

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Society’s responses and knowledge gaps

article

Special Paper: A Global Biome Model Based on Plant Physiology and Dominance, Soil Properties and Climate

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Species-specific photorespiratory rate, drought tolerance and isoprene emission rate in plants

scientific article

Stable isotope and modelling evidence for CO<sub>2</sub> as a driver of glacial–interglacial vegetation shifts in southern Africa

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THE CARBON BALANCE OF THE TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE: ECOSYSTEM MODELS AND ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS

article

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

Terrestrial biosphere carbon storage under alternative climate projections

Terrestrial biosphere changes over the last 120 kyr

Terrestrial nitrogen cycling in Earth system models revisited

scientific article

The China Plant Trait Database: towards a comprehensive regional compilation of functional traits for land plants

scientific article

The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: Experimental and analytical protocols

scientific article published on 5 October 2016

The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions

scientific article published on 17 March 2017

The Interaction of Climate and Land Use in Future Terrestrial Carbon Storage and Release

The Possible Dynamic Response of Northern Forests to Global Warming

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The Response of Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Climate and Vegetation to Orbitally Induced Changes in Insolation during the Last Interglaciation

article

The biomass burning contribution to climate-carbon cycle feedback

The biomass burning contribution to climate–carbon-cycle feedback

The climate and biomes of Europe at 6000yr BP

scholarly article

The climatic space of European pollen taxa

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

The global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The importance of age-related decline in forest NPP for modeling regional carbon balances

scientific article published in August 2006

The importance of antecedent vegetation and drought conditions as global drivers of burnt area

scientific article published on 29 June 2021

The influence of vegetation, fire spread and fire behaviour on biomass burning and trace gas emissions: results from a process-based model

article

The interaction of climate and land use in future terrestrial carbon storage and release

The optimal stomatal response to atmospheric CO2 concentration: Alternative solutions, alternative interpretations

article

The stable carbon isotope composition of the terrestrial biosphere: Modeling at scales from the leaf to the globe

article

The status and challenge of global fire modelling

article

The status and challenge of global fire modelling

The validity of optimal leaf traits modelled on environmental conditions

scientific article published on 29 October 2018

Thermal acclimation of leaf photosynthetic traits in an evergreen woodland, consistent with the coordination hypothesis

scientific article published in 2018

Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics

scientific article published on 27 October 2022

Towards a universal model for carbon dioxide uptake by plants

scientific article

Transforming conservation science and practice for a postnormal world

scientific article

Transient simulations of Holocene atmospheric carbon dioxide and terrestrial carbon since the Last Glacial Maximum

article published in 2004

Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

scientific article published on 17 November 2009

Tropical climates at the Last Glacial Maximum: a new synthesis of terrestrial palaeoclimate data. I. Vegetation, lake-levels and geochemistry

scientific article published on 4 November 1999

Tropical paleoclimates at the Last Glacial Maximum: comparison of Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) simulations and paleodata

scientific article published on 4 November 1999

Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective

scientific article

Untangling the confusion around land carbon science and climate change mitigation policy

scholarly article by Brendan Mackey et al published June 2013 in Nature Climate Change

Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

article

Vegetation and Climate Change in Eastern North America Since the Last Glacial Maximum

scholarly article by I. Colin Prentice et al published December 1991 in Ecology

Vegetation and Climate Change in Eastern North America Since the Last Glacial Maximum

scholarly article by I. C. Prentice et al published June 1993 in Ecology

Vegetation dynamics and plant CO2responses as positive feedbacks in a greenhouse world

article

Vegetation plays an important role in mediating future water resources

Volatile isoprenoid emissions from plastid to planet

scientific article

What do recent advances in quantifying climate and carbon cycle uncertainties mean for climate policy?

What have we learnt from palaeoclimate simulations?

When and where soil is important to modify the carbon and water economy of leaves

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites

scientific article