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Response to Comments on “Recent global decline of CO <sub>2</sub> fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis”

Songhan Wang, Yongguang Zhang, Weimin Ju, Jing M. Chen, Alessandro Cescatti, Jordi Sardans, Ivan A. Janssens, Mousong Wu, Joseph A. Berry, J. Elliott Campbell, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Ramdane Alkama, Stephen Sitch, William K. Smith, Wenping Yuan, Wei He, Danica Lombardozzi, Markus Kautz, Dan Zhu, Sebastian Lienert, Etsushi Kato, Benjamin Poulter, Tanja Sanders, Inken Krüger, Rong Wang, Ning Zeng, Hanqin Tian, Nicolas Vuichard, Atul K. Jain, Andy Wiltshire, Daniel S. Goll, Josep Peñuelas

2021Science30 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

fertilization effect (CFE) on vegetation photosynthesis has declined during the past four decades. The Comments suggest that the temporal inconsistency in AVHRR data and the attribution method undermine the results’ robustness. Here, we provide additional evidence that these arguments did not affect our finding and that the global decline in CFE is robust.

Topics & Concepts

PhotosynthesisHuman fertilizationRobustness (evolution)Vegetation (pathology)Global changeAttributionEnvironmental scienceEcologyBiologyAgronomyClimate changeBotanyPsychologySocial psychologyBiochemistryPathologyMedicineGeneAtmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamicsPlant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsClimate variability and models
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