Fast-forwarding forests

摘要

You head the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research. How will it stand out? One way it will stand out is a novel experiment called FACE - Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment It will be the first in the world to take a mature, temperate, broad-leafed woodland ecosystem and, where it stands, expose it to predicted future atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. We will look at the effects of the CO_2 on the structure and functioning of the woodland, With FACE we are responding to a lack of long-term data on the effects of CO_2 on woodland, People have been saying we need something like this for a long time.