Rising CO2 - Future ecosystems

Abstract

'Every beginning biology student knows that photosynthesis will increase if you give a plant a 'squirt' of CO2 - given enough light, nutrients, and water, and a suitable temperature. Logic tells us that if this is so, then more CO2 in the atmosphere should mean more photosynthesis. This, in turn, should mean more yield or accumulated carbon in plants. This logic is fine for beginning biology; unfortunately, nature is not that simple' (Lemon, 1983).