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Title: RISING CO2 - FUTURE ECOSYSTEMS

Author
item NORBY, R - OAK RIDGE NATL LAB TN
item KOBAYASHI, K - NIAS, TSUKUBA JAPAN
item Kimball, Bruce

Submitted to: New Phytologist
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/1/2001
Publication Date: 9/15/2001
Citation: Norby, R.J., Kobayashi, K., Kimball, B.A. 2001. Rising co2 - future ecosystems. New Phytologist. 150:215-222.

Interpretive Summary: During the late 1980s, free-air carbon dioxide (CO2) enrichment (FACE) technology was developed to study the effects of the rising atmospheric CO2 concentration on plants grown in open fields. Since then, the technology has been utilized in about 15 agricultural and relatively unmanaged ecosystems. In June 2000, an international conference was convened in Tuskuba, Japan, of scientists from the several FACE sites, who presented data on the responses of their particular ecosystem with respect to productivity, carbon storage, and many other parameters. Stimulated by the conference, the scientists made plans to publish papers in a special issue of New Phytologist journal. This manuscript is a prologue to this special issue, explaining the motivation for its publication. Conduction of such FACE research and presentation of the results benefit all mankind, as well as the other creatures on this Earth.

Technical Abstract: During the late 1980s, free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) technology was developed to study the effects of the rising atmospheric CO2 concentration on plants grown in open fields. Since then, the technology has been utilized in about 15 agricultural and relatively unmanaged ecosystems. In June 2000, an international conference was convened in Tuskuba, Japan, of scientists from the several FACE sites, who presented data on the responses of their particular ecosystem with respect to productivity, carbon storage, and many other parameters. Stimulated by the conference, the scientists made plans to publish papers in a special issue of New Phytologist journal. This manuscript is a prologue to this special issue, explaining the motivation for its publication.