Bibliography on CO2 Effects on Vegetation and Ecosystems: 1990-1999 Literature (ORNL/CDIAC-129)

Edited by Michael H. Jones and Peter S. Curtis
Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
The Ohio State University
in cooperation with the Institute for Scientific Information (July 2000)

This database provides complete bibliographic citations (plus abstracts and keywords, when available) for more than 2700 references published between 1990 and 1999 on the direct effects of elevated atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) on vegetation, ecosystems, their components and interactions. This bibliography is an update to Direct Effects of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment on Plants and Ecosystems: An Updated Bibliographic Data Base (ORNL/CDIAC-70), edited by Boyd R. Strain and Jennifer D. Cure, which covered literature from 1980 to 1994. This bibliography was developed to support the Carbon Dioxide Meta-Analysis Project (CO2MAP) at The Ohio State University, but was designed to be useful for a wide variety of purposes related to the effects of elevated CO2 on vegetation and ecosystems.

Due to its size, printed copies of the bibliography are NOT available or distributed from CDIAC. However, the database IS available in a variety of user friendly formats that may be accessed, downloaded, and printed directly from our Web site:

You may also be interested in the home page for the Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) studies, in which vegetation from a wide variety of regions is exposed to elevated levels of carbon dioxide without being confined in chambers - the most sophisticated and realistic of such studies to date.


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