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Challenges in elevated CO2 experiments on forests

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National Research Council of Italy1

Lund University2

Wageningen University & Research3

Michigan Technological University4

North Carolina State University5

University of Basel6

University of Illinois7

Brookhaven National Laboratory8

University of Antwerp9

Imperial College London10

Technical University of Munich11

United States Department of Agriculture12

Oak Ridge National Laboratory13

Duke University14

K.E. Percy Air Quality Effects Consulting Ltd.15

Department of Agronomy, Forestry and Land Use CRA16

Max Planck Institute17

University of Southampton18

Ecosystems, Biosystems Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark19

Biosystems Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark20

Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark21

Tuscia University22

Western Sydney University23

Bangor University24

City College of New York25

...and 15 more

Current forest Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiments are reaching completion. Therefore, it is time to define the scientific goals and priorities of future experimental facilities. In this opinion article, we discuss the following three overarching issues (i) What are the most urgent scientific questions and how can they be addressed? (ii) What forest ecosystems should be investigated? (iii) Which other climate change factors should be coupled with elevated CO2 concentrations in future experiments to better predict the effects of climate change? Plantations and natural forests can have conflicting purposes for high productivity and environmental protection.

However, in both cases the assessment of carbon balance and how this will be affected by elevated CO2 concentrations and the interacting climate change factors is the most pressing priority for future experiments.

Language: English
Year: 2010
Pages: 5-10
ISSN: 18784372 and 13601385
Types: Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2009.11.001

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