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Biospheric Productivity (Global)

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

Biospheric Productivity (Global)
Productivity (Biosphere)


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


* -- The Carbon Sink Efficiency of the Earth

* -- Not All Ecosystems Respond Dramatically to Rising Temperatures

* -- Global Terrestrial Net Primary Productivity: 2000-2009 and Beyond

* -- High Northern Latitude Carbon Balance Over the 21st Century

* -- Plant Productivity Responses to Experimental Ecosystem Warming

* -- Two Decades of Northern Hemispheric Greening

* -- Land Surface Temperatures and Plant Productivity of Europe: 1982-1999

* -- Global Forest Productivity Since the Mid-20th Century

* -- The Net Primary Productivity Response of Earth's Temperate Forests to Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment

* -- Earth's Terrestrial Environment is Becoming "More Like a Gardener's Greenhouse"

* -- The Greening of the Earth: 1982-1999

* -- Four Decades of Russian Forest Growth

* -- Responses of U.S. Ecosystems to Changing Climate

* -- Evidence of 20th-Century Declining Pan Evaporation in China

* -- Effects of an Urban-Rural CO2/Temperature Gradient on Plant Productivity

* -- North American Boreal Productivity Trends: 1982-2003

* -- Tropical Forest Productivity Trends: 1982-1999

* -- Continued Accelerated Growth of Amazonian Forests

* -- The Arid Lands of Central Asia in a Warming World and CO2-Accreting Atmosphere

* -- The Carbon-Starved World of the Last Glacial Maximum

* -- Forest Growth Rates

* -- Chinese Agricultural Productivity in a Warmer, Wetter World

* -- The Response of Earth's Biosphere to Atmospheric CO2 and Temperature Trends: 1981-2000

Fertilizing the Earth with CO2

The Aerial Fertilization Effect of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment: Can We Make a Good Thing Even Better?

A Bright Future for the Biosphere

A Two-Century History of Biospheric CO2 Exchange

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

Amplitude of the Atmosphere's Seasonal CO2 cycle