Warmer Climate Could Stifle Carbon Uptake by Trees, New CU-Boulder Study Says

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/41db10b62e1e4e4801eab883054c4e47.html

Warmer Climate Could Stifle Carbon Uptake by Trees, New CU-Boulder Study Says

January 7, 2010

Contrary to conventional belief, as the climate warms and growing seasons lengthen subalpine forests are likely to soak up less carbon dioxide, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

As a result, more of the greenhouse gas will be left to concentrate in the atmosphere.

"Our findings contradict studies of other ecosystems that conclude longer growing seasons actually increase plant carbon uptake," said Jia Hu, who conducted the research as a graduate student in CU-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department in conjunction with the university's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.

The study will be published in the February edition of the journal Global Change Biology.

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[HillbillyBob]

1. I wish I could remember where I read it, but

there seems to be indications that poison ivy, cedars, and kudzu grow faster with higher CO2 levels.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. Most plants like higher CO2 levels. The question is…

…how do they deal with higher temperatures?

[HillbillyBob]

3. Summer before last we had a very warm (for here) summer

with temps up to 106, and the poison ivy in the woods was just wild.
There was some kudzu, but we managed to uproot it and keep spraying it with weed killer,being enviro nuts we used direct spray on the plants so as not to get it on other local native plants and trees, we did the same with poison ivy in the yard. We have 7 acres of woods with the biggest baddest crop of poison ivy you ever did see. We want to try to eradicate it as it is so out of hand that it is killing old trees. Vines as big as my arm and climbing up 60 foot or taller trees and strangling them.
On edit.
This report is news to me(obviously its news duh). I wonder if it is only the evergreens mentioned or if all other species are affected too?