Percent Photosynthesis (Net CO2 Exchange Rate) Increases for
300, 600 and 900 ppm Increases in the Air's CO2 Concentration:


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Fagus sylvatica L. [European Beech]


Statistics
 
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm
 Number of Results
14
 
 
 Arithmetic Mean
58.7%
 
 
 Standard Error
8.9%
 
 

Individual Experiment Results

Journal References

Experimental Conditions
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm

Beerling et al. (1996)

Solardomes, year 1
72%

 

 

Beerling et al. (1996)

Solardomes, year 2
109%

 

 

Dyckmans et al. (2000)

3-yr. old seedlings grown for 6 weeks in controlled environment chambers
54%

 

 

Egli et al. (1998)

open-top chambers
33%

 

 

Heath (1998)

Solardomes, low PPFD
13%

 

 

Heath (1998)

Solardomes, high PPFD
98%

 

 

Heath (1998)

Solardomes, drought period
106%

 

 

Heath et al. (2005)

Well-watered seedlings grown for just over one year 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
52%

 

 

Heath et al. (2005)

Well-watered seedlings grown for just over one year 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
16%

 

 

Heath and Kerstiens (1997)

Solardomes
90%

 

 

Kosvancova et al. (2009)

Photosynthesis of fully developed leaves from the upper part of the crowns of well watered and fertilized seven-year-old trees grown for three seasons in glass-dome facilities in the Beskydy Mountains of the northeast Czech Republic
19%

 

 

Maurer et al. (1999)

saplings rooted in natural soil for three years
87%

 

 

Taylor and Dobson (1989)

tubes (1-m deep, 6.9-m diameter), low water
33%

 

 

Taylor and Dobson (1989)

tubes (1-m deep, 6.9-m diameter), adequate water
40%

 

 

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