Material in this section originates from the following categories in our Subject Index:

Biospheric Productivity (Global: The Distant and Historic Past)
Greening of the Earth (Global: The Distant and Historic Past)
Productivity (Biosphere: Global, The Distant and Historic Past)

Material preceded by an asterisk (*) was posted after this subject summary was written and therefore is not included in the summary.  This material will be integrated into the summary at a later date.

Summary

* -- Rising Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and "Woody Thickening"

The Increasing Vigor of Earth's Terrestrial Plants

High Northern Latitude Carbon Balance Over the 21st Century

The Carbon-Starved World of the Last Glacial Maximum

A Two-Century History of Biospheric CO2 Exchange

* -- Plant Growth and Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Model Calculations Based on Empirical Observations

Earth's Past Biospheric Productivity Inferred from Oxygen Isotopes in Greenland Ice Core

The Holocene Climatic Optimum: Paradise Lost?