Chongyang Xu

Plants boost carbon uptake through water efficiency, not heat adaptation, global analysis reveals

Plants boost carbon uptake through water efficiency, not heat adaptation, global analysis reveals Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor An international team of scientists has discovered that plants are not responding to global warming in the way researchers long assumed. Scientists have expected that ecosystems would keep pace with warming by rising the temperature at which photosynthesis works best. A new study published in One Earth is challenging that theory.