Nocturnal plant respiration is under strong non-temperature control

Plant respiration at night is assumed to be temperature-controlled. Here, the authors show that temperature controls less than half of the variation in leaf respiration rate at night, and demonstrate how to account for such nocturnal variation in biosphere models.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dan Bruhn, Freya Newman, Mathilda Hancock, Peter Povlsen, Martijn Slot, Stephen Sitch, John Drake, Graham P. Weedon, Douglas B. Clark, Majken Pagter, Richard J. Ellis, Mark G. Tjoelker, Kelly M. Andersen, Zorayda Restrepo Correa, Patrick C. McGuire, Lina M. Mercado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33370-1