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


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Carpinus betulus L. [European Hornbeam]


Statistics
 
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm
 Number of Results
3
 
 
 Arithmetic Mean
35.3%
 
 
 Standard Error
26.4%
 
 

Individual Experiment Results

Journal References

Experimental Conditions
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm

Hattenschwiler and Korner (2003)

Plants grown from seed for three years beneath the canopy of the 120-year-old Hofstetten Experimental Forest near Basel, Switzerland, in open-top chambers exposed to light of approximately 2.2% the intensity of full sunlight
45%

 

 

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
86%

 

 

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
-25%

 

 

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