edu.ucar.opensky::articles:26753 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T19:01:28.157832 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d77w6h9s https://doi.org/10.25581/spruce.090/1780604 https Related Dataset #1 SPRUCE Plant Tissue Analyses from Experimental Plots Beginning 2017 https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/cd913a57d7f138b832b7f90b53ae21be https Related Dataset #2 Biomass Inventories at Harvard Forest EMS Tower since 1993 https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/ea69ebede543bed70ecd316a5a0a104f https Related Dataset #3 PEC01 Elemental chemistry of plant tissue collected for the Konza LTER aboveground plant biomass on Konza Prairie core watersheds https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7814787 https Related Software #1 emhauser/FlexibleFoliarCN: Flexible foliar stoichiometry reduces the magnitude of the global land carbon sink Flexible foliar stoichiometry reduces the magnitude of the global land carbon sink 2023-11-16T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d77w6h9s https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105493 Hauser, E. author Wieder, William author Bonan, Gordon B. author Cleveland, C. C. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher Increased plant growth under elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) slows the pace of climate warming and underlies projections of terrestrial carbon (C) and climate dynamics. However, this important ecosystem service may be diminished by concurrent changes to vegetation carbon-to-nitrogen (C:N) ratios. Despite clear observational evidence of increasing foliar C:N under elevated CO2, our understanding of potential ecological consequences of foliar stoichiometric flexibility is incomplete. Here, we illustrate that when we incorporated CO2-driven increases in foliar stoichiometry into the Community Land Model the projected land C sink decreased two-fold by the end of the century compared to simulations with fixed foliar chemistry. Further, CO2-driven increases in foliar C:N profoundly altered Earth's hydrologic cycle, reducing evapotranspiration and increasing runoff, and reduced belowground N cycling rates. These findings underscore the urgency of further research to examine both the direct and indirect effects of changing foliar stoichiometry on soil N cycling and plant productivity. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation