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


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Larrea tridentata (Sesse & Moc. ex DC.) Coville [Creosote Bush]


Statistics
 
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm
 Number of Results
10
 
 
 Arithmetic Mean
103.6%
 
 
 Standard Error
24.4%
 
 

Individual Experiment Results

Journal References

Experimental Conditions
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm

Ellsworth et al. (2004)

Bushes grown under natural conditions for four years in a FACE study
63%

 

 

Hamerlynck et al. (2000a)

glasshouse
76%

 

 

Hamerlynck et al. (2000b)

field, wet season
158%

 

 

Hamerlynck et al. (2000b)

field, dry season
126%

 

 

Housman et al. (2006)

Whole plant photosynthesis of adult shrubs growing naturally at the Nevada Desert FACE facility in southern Nevada, USA, during "an anomalously wet year" (1998)
46%

 

 

Housman et al. (2006)

Whole plant photosynthesis of adult shrubs growing naturally at the Nevada Desert FACE facility in southern Nevada, USA, during the last of three years of below-average rainfall (2001)
65%

 

 

Huxman et al. (1999)

glasshouse
23%

 

 

Naumburg et al. (2003)

FACE
49%

 

 

Naumburg et al. (2004)

FACE study conducted on mature creosote bushes over a period of six years under conditions of a low (1.0) ratio of daily average stomatal conductance (SC) under elevated compared with ambient CO2
130%

 

 

Naumburg et al. (2004)

FACE study conducted on mature creosote bushes over a period of six years under conditions of a high (1.6) ratio of daily average stomatal conductance (SC) under elevated compared with ambient CO2
300%

 

 

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