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What are consumers

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Organisms that feed on plants or on other organisms (microbes, animals)

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What is phenology

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Study of timing of development in plants and animals

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What are the direct effects of climate change on consumers

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Phenology and growth

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Phenology of plants

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Budburst
Flowering
Leaf fall

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Phenology of animals

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Emergency from hibernation
Reproduction
Migrairon

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How does climate change effect warm blooded animals

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They are buffered from direct temperate effects so metabolism isn’t directly effected.
Responses to climate change more likely to be indirect via food or wider ecosystem.

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How does climate change effect cold blooded animals

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Physiology, growth and development often tightly coupled to temperature

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What is the relationships between temperature and growth in cold blooded animals

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Linear.
No development below 10C.
Above 10C each 5*C increase in temperature produces a constant increase in development

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What happens when the relationship between development and temperature is linear

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It is often possible to summarise temperature effects in terms of accumulated temperature above the threshhold

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What is a degree day

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How many degrees is above the threshhold temperature for how many days. Times together e.g 2d @5*C is 10 degree days.

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When does a given developmental stage occur

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At a set number of degree data

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Example of animal with a linear relationship between temperature and development

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White cabbage butterfly

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Facts about the white cabbage bitterly

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Development from egg hatching to pupation is 174 degree days above a threshhold of 10.5*C

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What is the predicted effect of animal development in higher temperatures

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Development starts earlier in spring and doesn’t stop over winter.
More generations per year so greater population build up.
Species currently constrained by threshold temperatures may move north or beyond favoured habitats.

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What is happening to amphibians in the uk

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They are spawning earlier. Around 10 days over the last 20 years.

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What has happened to insects in the northern hemisphere

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They are extended their range northwards including some plant pests and vectors of human disease

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What are happening to insects

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Extending their range to higher altitudes and disappearing at lower elevations in some cases

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What is happening to Uk birds

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Extending their range northwards at 6miles a decade and breeding earlier at 1 week in 20 years

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What are three diseases that are likely to move due to climate change

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Malaria (mosquito)
Dengue fever (mosquito)
Schistosomiasis (water snail)

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What is 1*C temperature rise in Rwanda associated with

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A 337% increase in malaria

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What do models predict that a 3*C warming would lead to

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50-80 million additional cases of malaria per year worldwide

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Why may changes in herbivorous insects be secondary

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Changing in response to the effects of warming on plant development

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What do all plants have

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Characteristic temperature responses - different optimum temperatures

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What are differences in optimum temperature due to

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Differences in metabolism of species

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What is the optimum temperature of C3 plant oil seed rape

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What is the optimum temperature of C4 plant Maize

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What is the effect on crop plants or temperature increases

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Unlikely that increasing temperature will limit agricultural pridcution.
Secondary wffects limiting.
Some crops will be able to be grown north.

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What is the effect on UK native species in temperature increases

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We will lose plant species, locally and nationally.

We may see some new species as well.

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What was the change in geographical range of stemless thistle

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Southern distribution and likely to expand and invade north

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What was the change in geographical range of wood cranesbill

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Widespread, typically northern distribution. Likely to retreat north as it needs cooler temperature.

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What was the change in geographical range of yellow mountain saxifrage

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Arctic alpine species in the UK at the southern limit of their range in the highlands, snowdonia and Lake District. Retreat north.

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What was the change in geographical range of alpine meadow rue

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Arctic alpine species in southern limit in highlands. Snowdonia and Lake District. Retreat north.

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What was the change in geographical range of twinflower

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Arctic alpine species in southern limit in highlands. Snowdonia and Lake District. Very little left will significantly retract

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What was the change in geographical range of drooping saxifrage

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Arctic alpine species in southern limit in highlands. Snowdonia and Lake District.
Most extreme part of range. Will disappear

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What is specious development well correlated with

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Accumulated temperature above a threshhold minimum

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What can degree day models predict

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Many developmental responses

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What is the minimum temperature for oilseed rape

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What is the minimum temperature for maize

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What happens between minimum and optimum temperatures

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There’s a relatively linear relationship so can predict growth rates

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What are the recent trends in the Uk

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Growth parameters are changing and spring is getting earlier, autumn is getting later. Encroaching the threshhold required for flowering earlier, later developmental processes occur it later. Stretching the growth season/phase

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Why is low temperature essential for development in plants

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Many developmental events have a requirement for periods of low temperature which will be lost if temperatures keep going up

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What is the recent trend in the Uk for hazel flowering

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23 days earlier

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What is the recent trend in the Uk for emergence of snowdrops

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7days earlier

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What is the recent trend in the Uk for bluebell flowering

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16 days earlier

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What is the recent trend in the Uk for alder leafing

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13 days earlier

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What is the recent trend in the Uk for hawthorn leafing

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17 days earlier

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What is the recent trend in the Uk for beech leaf colouring

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12 days later

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What is the recent trend in the Uk for oak leaf colouring

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9 days later

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What is the recent trend in the Uk for beech leaf fall

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12 days later

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What is the recent trend in the Uk for oak leaf fall

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5 days later

51
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What are the 3 developmental stages low temperatures are essential for

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Seed dormancy
Flowering in trees
Flowering in winter cereals

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What is seed dormancy broken by

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Periods (weeks-months) of low temperature (stratification)

53
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When can flowering in many trees occur

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Only after exposure to periods below a certain temperature

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When does flowering in winter cereals depend on

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A period of Low temperature (vernalisation)

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What happens without exposure to low temperature in some crop cultivars and native species

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They will not germinate or flower normally

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What would be the solution to not having periods of low temperature for crops

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Change to different cultivars like s.europeqn

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What happens due to native plants not getting low temperature periods

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Different species respond differently leading to altered competition and other interactions.
Some species gqin and other lose impacting biodiversity.
Plants and animals may respond differently causing loss of synchrony between plants and the animals feeding on them.

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What are the consumer response to plants changing

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Altered decomposition of plant litter
Altered herbivory and disease
Loss of fitness due to herbivory and disease altered

59
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What 4 things does elevated co2 effect in plants

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Storage
Defence
Growth
Reproduction

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How do plants use elevated co2 to store

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Plants use fixed carbon and store it due to damage to photosynthetic tissue. Use this to replace damaged organs.

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How do plants use elevated co2 to reproduce

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Transfer their genetic material into the next generation

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What is defence

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Plant characteristics that reduce/ prevent attack by primary consumers

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What are the plant properties affecting herbivory

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Tannin concentration
Fibre content
Cellulose content 
Toughness 
Water content 
Nitrogen concentration
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What is the gradient between increased foliage herbivory and tannin concentration

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Negative

65
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What is the gradient between increased foliage herbivory and fibre content

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Negative

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What is the gradient between increased foliage herbivory and cellulose content

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Negative

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What is the gradient between increased foliage herbivory and toughness

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Negative

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What is fibre closely linked to

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Lignin content

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What is the gradient between increased foliage herbivory and water content

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Positive

70
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What is the gradient between increased foliage herbivory and nitrogen concentration

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Positive

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What is nitrogen concentration often expressed as

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C:N ratio. More carbon relative to nitrogen increases ratio

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What is the gradient between increased foliage herbivory and the C:N ratio

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Negative

73
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What are the correlation between rate of mass loss and leaf litter characteristics in decomposing birch leaves for tannin concentration

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Negative

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What are the correlation between rate of mass loss and leaf litter characteristics in decomposing birch leaves for lignin content

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Negative

75
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What are the correlation between rate of mass loss and leaf litter characteristics in decomposing birch leaves for nitrogen concentration

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Positive as more nitrogen more decomposition

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What are the correlation between rate of mass loss and leaf litter characteristics in decomposing birch leaves for C:N ratio

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Negative

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What are the correlation between rate of mass loss and leaf litter characteristics in decomposing birch leaves for lignin:N

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Negative

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What do higher concentrations of tannins and lignin do

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Inhibit consumers (induction of the phenylpropanoid pathway). Make tissues tougher, harder to digest

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What does lower concentrations of nitrogen do

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Inhibit consumers and makes tissues less nutrious

80
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What influences the balance between the four end points of elevated carbon

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Photosynthate (C)
Nutrients
Water
But different end points may need different relative amounts of different resources

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What do growth and reproduction have

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Relatively high requirements for non photosynthate resources (nutrients and water)

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What are the 2 environments that influence the balance between end points

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Non-photosynthate resources are freely available (non limiting to growth)
They are not freely available and so limiting to growth

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What happens in the not limiting environment.

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Extra photosynthate can support increase in all four end points so everything increases

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What happens in the limiting environment

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Extra photosynthate can not support increases in growth or reproduction bc mineral and water resources they are dependent on is limited.
Do not grow more, but store more and increase defence. Decrease herbivory, disease and decomposition

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How many storage also influence defence

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Storage may be in specific tissues or organs like a build up of starch.
More stars is more fixed carbon.
If nitrogen is limitint then increases in C will result in increases in the C:N ratio.
Negative correlation between ratio and herbivory.
Increased storage under elevated co2 may contribute to defence by increased ratio.

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How may storage influence photosynthesis

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the starch build up in leaves inhibits photosynthesis.

The effect of elevated co2 on photosynthesis may be self limiting.

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What is the experimental data on elevated co2 and herbivory

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Aspen oak and maple. 2 columns one is ambient co2 other is elevated.

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What does the experimental data show happens for plant growth

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Goes up. 2/3 significantly.

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What does the experimental data show happens for nitrogen

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Goes down (C:N ratio goes up). 2/3 significantly

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What does the experimental data show happens for toughness

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Goes up (2/3 significantly

91
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What does the experimental data show happens for starch

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Goes up. 2/3 significantly

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What does the experimental data show happens for water content

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It goes down. 2/3 significant

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What does the experimental data show happens for tannin concentration

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Goes up 1/3 significantly. Suppresses interactions with consumers

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What happens to larvae in aspen in the experimental data

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Development was slowed down.
Growth rate reduced.
Weight was reduced.

95
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What animal did the experimental data use to figure out larval situairosn

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Gypsy moth and species that can cause major forest damage during population explosions

96
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What does all the experimental data point to

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Elevated co2 inhibits growth and development of the herbivore as predicted especially on aspen. However moth tries to adjust for its food quality by eating more. Primary effect on insect is predictable but behavioural responses are not.

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What does the experimental data for elevated co2 and decomposition state

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Under elevated you get increased carbon, decreases nitrogen, increased ratio, increased tannins and increase in toughness which all negatively correlate with decomposition.
Decomposition reducesd in 3/4 species (ash, birch, sycamore) not spruce.
Less loss of carbon from litter so negative impact on decomposition.

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What is the conclusions of the experimental data on decomposition

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Co2 does reduce decomposition.
Co2 reduces recycling of both nutrients and carbon.
Increased ‘sequestration’ of C in litter could help restore the overall global C budget.
The effect of warming has the opposite effect in the short term releasing carbon.

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