Adaptive Carbon Allocation by Plants Enhances the Terrestrial Carbon Sink

Abstract Carbon allocation is one of the most important physiological processes to optimize the plant growth, which exerts a strong influence on ecosystem structure and function, with potentially large implications for the global carbon budget. However, it remains unclear how the carbon allocation p...

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Main Authors: Jiangzhou Xia, Wenping Yuan, Ying-Ping Wang, Quanguo Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03574-3