TY - JOUR
AU1 - Klironomos, John N.
AU2 - Allen, Michael F.
AU3 - Rillig, Matthias C.
AU4 - Piotrowski, Jeff
AU5 - Makvandi-Nejad, Shokouh
AU6 - Wolfe, Benjamin E.
AU7 - Powell, Jeff R.
AB - Experimenters looking at the effects of a future increase in atmospheric CO2 will often expose a modern ecosystem to a high CO2 level, then see what happens. New work suggests that their results might be misleading. In a long-term (6-year) study of mycorrhizal soil fungi, an abrupt increase in CO2 had a much greater effect on biodiversity and structure in the fungal community than a gradual increase over 21 generations. It remains to be seen if a similar discrepancy occurs in field experiments, where more complex inter-species relationships apply, but it seems that caution should be exercised in interpreting the effects of changes that are more abrupt than occur naturally.
TI - Abrupt rise in atmospheric CO2 overestimates community response in a model plant–soil system
JF - Nature
DO - 10.1038/nature03268
DA - 2005-02-10
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/abrupt-rise-in-atmospheric-co2-overestimates-community-response-in-a-Aihf0oPA1h
SP - 621
EP - 624
VL - 433
IS - 7026
DP - DeepDyve
ER -