ArticleNature ecology & evolution2020
Global evidence for the acclimation of ecosystem photosynthesis to light.
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- The leaf-scale mass-based photosynthetic optimization model better predicts photosynthetic acclimation than the area-based.AoB PLANTS · 2024Article
- The role of light in regulating plant growth, development and sugar metabolism: a review.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
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- Global climate and nutrient controls of photosynthetic capacity.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Estimating Light Acclimation Parameters of Cucumber Leaves Using Time-Weighted Averages of Daily Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Photosynthesis responds quickly to changes in light, increasing with incoming photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) until the leaves become light saturated. This instantaneous response to PPFD, which is widely studied and incorporated into models of photosynthesis, is overlaid on non-instantaneous photosynthetic changes resulting from the acclimation of plants to average PPFD over intermediate timescales of a week to months [Formula: see text]. Such photosynthetic light acclimation is not typically incorporated into models, due to the lack of observational constraints. Here, we use eddy covariance observations from globally distributed and automated sensor networks, along with photosynthesis estimates from nine terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs), to quantify and assess photosynthetic acclimation to light in natural environments. We also use recent theoretical developments to incorporate light acclimation in a TBM. Our results show widespread light acclimation of ecosystem photosynthesis. On average, a 1 μmol m
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