Percent Dry Weight (Biomass) Increases for
300, 600 and 900 ppm Increases in the Air's CO2 Concentration:


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Abies alba Miller [Silver Fir]


Statistics
 
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm
 Number of Results
5
 
 
 Arithmetic Mean
33.2%
 
 
 Standard Error
11.6%
 
 

Individual Experiment Results

Journal References

Experimental Conditions
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm

Hattenschwiler (2001)

open-top chambers, 3.4% of full sunlight
62%

 

 

Hattenschwiler and Korner (2000)

open-top chambers, 0.8-2.1% of full sun
-4%

 

 

Hattenschwiler and Korner (2000)

open-top chambers, 2.6-4.8% of full sun
63%

 

 

Heath et al. (2005)

Well-watered seedlings grown for 15 months in vertical sections of 16-cm-diameter polyethylene tubes supplied with 10 liters of fertilized soil containing 2.5 g/liter of slow release Osmocote fertilizer, all located within several 4.5-m-diameter Solardomes
27%

 

 

Heath et al. (2005)

Well-watered seedlings grown for 15 months in vertical sections of 16-cm-diameter polyethylene tubes supplied with 10 liters of unfertilized soil, all located within several 4.5-m-diameter Solardomes
18%

 

 

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