Photosynthetic responses to altitude: an explanation based on optimality principles

Han Wang; I Colin Prentice; Tyler W Davis; Trevor F Keenan; Ian J Wright; Changhui Peng

doi:10.1111/nph.14332

Photosynthetic responses to altitude: an explanation based on optimality principles

New Phytol. 2017 Feb;213(3):976-982. doi: 10.1111/nph.14332. Epub 2016 Nov 18.

Authors

Han Wang^{1

2}, I Colin Prentice^{1

2

3}, Tyler W Davis^{3

4}, Trevor F Keenan^{2

5}, Ian J Wright², Changhui Peng^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia.
³ AXA Chair Programme in Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK.
⁴ United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Centre for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
⁵ Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, H3C 3P8, QC, Canada.

PMID: 27859388
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14332

No abstract available

Keywords: atmospheric pressure; attitude; leaf temperature; leaf-internal to ambient CO2 partial pressures ratio (ci : ca); optimality; photosynthetic capacity; theory.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Altitude*
Carbon Dioxide
Models, Biological
Photosynthesis*
Plant Leaves / physiology*

Substances

Carbon Dioxide