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... Adapting crops to warmer growing season temperatures is a major challenge in mitigating the impacts of climate change on crop production. Warming temperatures drive greater evaporative demand and can directly interfere with both reproductive and vegetative physiological processes. Most of the world’s crop species have C3 photosynthetic metabolism for which increasing temperature means higher rates ...
... Notiomastodon platensis was an endemic South American proboscidean, which could reach about six tons and had a mixed feeder diet with predominance of C₄ grasses in Brazilian Intertropical Region (BIR). In the last decades, its feeding behavior has been rebuilt mainly through dental calculus, enamel microwear and stable isotope analyses. However, all these techniques allow us to know only punctual ...
Nana Khundadze; Christoph Küppers; Beatrix Kammer; Andrius Garbaras; Agne Masalaite; Holger Wissel; Andreas Lücke; Bezhan Chankvetadze; Jochen Rudolph; Astrid Kiendler-Scharr; Iulia Gensch
... We report source specific isotope ratios of levoglucosan, the specific biomass burning tracer, in aerosol particles from the combustion of selected woods used for domestic heating in Europe, of coals containing cellulose (lignites) as well as of corn, a C4 plant. Here, we combine compound specific δ¹³C measurements of levoglucosan with total carbon δ¹³C of parent materials, to assess isotopic frac ...
... PURPOSE: Large rivers play an important role in the global carbon cycle through the transportation of particulate organic carbon (POC) from the continent to the ocean. Human disturbance such as water–sediment regulation (WSR) significantly changes the downstream fluxes of sediment and POC. However, the sources and variations of POC affected by WSR in the lower Yellow River remain poorly understood ...
... Endophytes, both bacterial and fungal, constitute an integral component of the leaf ecosystem. Here we argue that the respiratory metabolism of endophytes in the intercellular spaces of leaves could have a significant role in enhancing leaf photosynthesis by enriching the internal CO₂ concentration, especially in C3 plants. ...
... Macroscopic transition processes of soot formation for 1-butene, isobutene, n-butane and isobutane counterflow diffusion flames from sooting-free to heavy-sooting were studied by varying fuel concentration (XF) in the fuel stream. A novel optical diagnostic algorithm was proposed to classify different sooting transition stages in flames. Effects of saturated/unsaturated bonds and linear/branched s ...
... A year-long sampling campaign of ambient PM₂.₅ (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 mm) at a regional station in the North-Eastern Region (NER) of India was performed to understand the sources and formation of carbonaceous aerosols. Mass concentration, carbon fractions (organic and elemental carbon), and stable carbon isotope ratio (δ¹³C) of PM₂.₅ were measured and studied along with ...
... Plant carbon isotope discrimination is complex, and could be driven by climate, evolution and/or edaphic factors. We tested the climate drivers of carbon isotope discrimination in modern and historical plant chemistry, and focus in particular on the relationship between rising [CO₂] over Industrialization and carbon isotope discrimination. We generated temporal records of plant carbon isotopes fro ...
... The regulation of photosynthesis and carbon gain of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants has not yet been disclosed to the extent of C3‐plants. In this study, the tropical epiphyte Phalaenopsis cv. “Sacramento” was subjected to different lighting regimes. Photosynthesis and biochemical measuring techniques were used to address four specific questions: (1) the response of malate decarboxylatio ...
... This study investigated the carbon isotope ratio (¹³C/¹²C, δ¹³C in unit of parts per thousand or per mill, ‰) of different coconut water samples using elemental analysis isotope ratio mass spectrometry (EA‐IRMS) and combustion module cavity ring‐down spectroscopy (CM‐CRDS). Natural coconut water from young coconuts from 12 provinces in Thailand (n = 94), adulterated coconut water containing three ...
... Several studies have previously reported that nanomaterial uptake and toxicity in plants are species dependent. However, the differences between photosynthetic pathways, C3 and C4, following nanomaterial exposure are poorly understood. In the current work, wheat and rice, two C3 pathway species are compared to amaranth and maize, which utilize the C4 photosynthetic mechanism. These plants were cul ...
... In many regions of the world, climate change is projected to reduce water availability through changes in the hydrological cycle, including more frequent and intense droughts, as well as seasonal shifts in precipitation. In water‐limited ecosystems, such as drylands, lower soil water availability may exceed the adaptive capacity of many organisms, leading to cascading ecological effects during (co ...
Bayesian theory; C3 plants; lakes; plankton; rivers; sediments; sewage; soil; total nitrogen; total organic carbon; watersheds; China
Abstract:
... PURPOSE: Lake sediment is an important carbon reservoir, and knowledge of organic carbon distribution and its controlling factors can provide insights into the effects of natural processes and anthropogenic pressures on carbon dynamics in drainage basin. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Here, we combined total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), and their stable isotopes (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) with a Bayesi ...
... Key indicators of pro-/antioxidant status were studied in leaves of Plantago media L. (C₃ species) and Hylotelephium triphyllum (Haw.) Holub (facultative CAM species) grown in the unclosed floodplain meadow biogeocenosis in the middle taiga subzone of the Komi Republic (European Northeast of Russia). During the period of reproductive development, the average content of lipid peroxidation products ...
... Canopy conductance (Gc) is a crucial variable in accurately estimating latent heat flux and evapotranspiration (ET) over vegetated surfaces. Gc is highly dependent on the plant species and the surrounding environment; consequently, it is difficult to accurately simulate Gc using a simplified universal model. A number of empirical parameters and functional forms have been introduced to appropriatel ...
... The rhizosphere, a fascinating vegetational and climatic negotiator, has been discovered and being reported from widespread Quaternary fluvio-lacustrine sediments of the Purna alluvial basin, central India. These organo-sedimentary structures representing diversified morphologies i.e., rounded to sub-rounded, spherical to sub-spherical, small to large surfaced, calcretized bodies of 7–20 cm diamet ...
... Vegetation in East Africa is generally thought to have shifted from forests to more open grasslands and savannas as global climate cooled and high-latitude ice sheets expanded during the Plio-Pleistocene. Such a shift would have greatly influenced landscape resources, and potentially hominin evolution as well. Existing records of African vegetation spanning these time-scales are generally derived ...
... Not-from-concentrate (NFC) juice has better nutrition, flavor and higher price than reconstituted juice. Accordingly, NFC juice is prone to adulteration and is an ongoing industry problem that has not yet been resolved. Undeclared addition of water and sugar are the main forms of NFC juice adulteration. This paper investigates the carbon and oxygen stable isotope ratios (δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O values) of t ...
... Industrial activities have led to a gradual and global increase in soil aluminum (Al) and atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. Al bioavailability strongly depends on the soil pH, which in turn is affected by atmospheric CO₂ levels. In spite of the concurrent impact which Al and elevated CO₂ (eCO₂) could have on plants, their interaction and how it might affect the growth of economically important crop ...
... A comprehensive understanding of multipaddock, rotational grazing management on rangelands has been slow to develop, and the contribution of adaptive management (Briske et al. 2011) and sufficient scale (Teague and Barnes 2017) have been identified as key omissions. We designed an experiment to compare responses of vegetation and cattle in an adaptively managed, multipaddock, rotational system wit ...