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SUBMITTER: Hamdan M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6052161 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hamdan Mohammed M Byström Pär P Hotchkiss Erin R ER Al-Haidarey Mohammed J MJ Ask Jenny J Karlsson Jan J
Scientific reports 20180718 1
Gross primary production (GPP) is a fundamental ecosystem process that sequesters carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) and forms the resource base for higher trophic levels. Still, the relative contribution of different controls on GPP at the whole-ecosystem scale is far from resolved. Here we show, by manipulating CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations in large-scale experimental pond ecosystems, that CO<sub>2</sub> availability is a key driver of whole-ecosystem GPP. This result suggests we need to reformul ...[more]