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Coping with human CO2 emissions

For two centuries, a natural experiment has been showing how increasing atmospheric CO2 affects plants. Laboratory work provides pointers as to how they will respond in the future.

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Figure 1: Plant stomata and anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

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Serna, L., Fenoll, C. Coping with human CO2 emissions . Nature 408, 656–657 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35047202

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