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Temperature affects all biological processes. Plants experience wide variation in temperature everyday, and temperature varies widely across the planet. Together, these facts create large uncertainty in any preduction of how the terrestrial biosphere will respond to a gradually increasing average temperature over the coming decades. Research in the Physiological Ecology group within the Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has focussed on how plant adjust to changing temperatures, how increased temperature interacts with rising atmospheric CO2 concentration, and the implications of physiological adjustments to community and ecosystem-scale processes in a future, warmer climate.Current Projects
- Temperature Response and Adjustment in Trees: Physiological and Ecological Basis for Forest Responses to a Warmer Climate
- Community and Ecosystem Response to Global Change: Interactive Effects of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Surface Temperatures, and Soil Moisture
Completed Projects
- Temperature and CO2 Interactions in Trees (TACIT)
- Temperature Adjustments in Sugar Maple: Implications for Forest Succession in a Warmer Climate
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This research has been supported by the Program for Ecosystem Research and Terrestrial Carbon Processes of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research
