Percent Dry Weight (Biomass) Increases for
300, 600 and 900 ppm Increases in the Air's CO2 Concentration:


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Perennial Grassland of Cedar Creek Natural History Area in central Minnesota, USA



Statistics
 
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm
 Number of Results
3
 
 
 Arithmetic Mean
24.3%
 
 
 Standard Error
4.9%
 
 

Individual Experiment Results

Journal References

Experimental Conditions
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm

Dijkstra et al. (2006)

Total plant biomass of plants grown in monoculture as part of the FACE BioCON experiment conducted at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Minnesota, USA, over four growing seasons (1998-2001)
21%

 

 

Reich et al. (2006)

FACE study of 296 planted field plots containing either 1, 4, 9 or 16 species growing on natural low-N soil in the fifth and sixth years of a long-term experiment
16%

 

 

Reich et al. (2006)

FACE study of 296 planted field plots containing either 1, 4, 9 or 16 species growing on soil receiving an extra 4 g N m-2 yr-1 applied as NH4NO3 in the fifth and sixth years of a long-term experiment
36%

 

 

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