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


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Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus [Nepalese Browntop]


Statistics
 
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm
 Number of Results
3
 
 
 Arithmetic Mean
-53.3%
 
 
 Standard Error
15.6%
 
 

Individual Experiment Results

Journal References

Experimental Conditions
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm

Belote et al. (2003)

Plants growing naturally in the understory community of a 17-m tall sweetgum stand in a FACE experiment; wet year
-65%

 

 

Belote et al. (2003)

Plants growing naturally in the understory community of a 17-m tall sweetgum stand in a FACE experiment; dry year
-16%

 

 

Sanders et al. (2004)

FACE study of a non-native invasive C4 annual grass that growing together competitively with four other plant species comprise more than 90% of the biomass of the understory of a closed-canopy sweetgum plantation
-79%

 

 

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