Figure 1. Comparisons across evergreen coniferous (green bars), deciduous broadleaf (blue bars) and tropical forests (red bars), regarding (A) NEP in proportion to GPP, with (B) corresponding absolute GPP (black bars), (C) canopy transpiration (Ec) in proportion to precipitation (P), with (D) corresponding absolute P (black bars), (E) GPP in proportion to ET. Each box plot shows median, lower (25%) and upper (75%) quartile along with minimum and maximum levels of the explored parameter as centre line, box and whiskers, respectively, i.e., box plot in (A) NEP/GPP, in (C) Ec/P, and in (E) GPP/ET. Data in (A, B) from Waring and Running (2009) and in (C–E) from Schlesinger and Bernhardt (2013). From: Woody-plant ecosystems under climate change and air pollution—response consistencies across zonobiomes? Tree Physiol. 2017;37(6):706-732. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpx009 Tree Physiol | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
Figure 2. Seasonal course of the monthly C balance of 95-year-old Pinus cembra (red columns) and 65-year-old Larix decidua (green columns) trees, assessed on Mt Patscherkofel (Klimahaus) Austria, at 1950 m above sea level; positive columns represent C gain, negative ones respiratory C release (adapted from Wieser et al. 2007). From: Woody-plant ecosystems under climate change and air pollution—response consistencies across zonobiomes? Tree Physiol. 2017;37(6):706-732. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpx009 Tree Physiol | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
Figure 3. Net biomass change measured in permanent plots in Amazonia since 1980. The 2005 drought reversed the long-term C sink to source. Shown are means and 95% bootstrapped confidence intervals for interval-related biomass change weighted by sampling intensity: black representing 1980–1989, 1990–1994 and 1995–1999, each interval graphically represented by (i.e., aligned with) its central year; blue accordingly, with the drought interval starting in 2005 (i.e., with 2000–2004 as pre-drought reference; modified from Phillips et al. 2009). From: Woody-plant ecosystems under climate change and air pollution—response consistencies across zonobiomes? Tree Physiol. 2017;37(6):706-732. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpx009 Tree Physiol | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
Figure 4. Brazilian Cerrado (mixed-foliage system): mean responses of five Cerrado tree species (A–D) and at ecosystem level (E, F) to N and N+P (NP) additions relative to controls: (A) foliage area, (B) basal area, (C) daily water use per tree, (D) nutritional resorption, (E) litter decomposition velocity and (F) Shannon's diversity index (H’). (A–C) Sampled after 6 years of fertilization (extracted from Bucci et al. 2006). (D–F) Sampled after 3 (extracted from Kozovits et al. 2007) and 10 years (extracted from Jacobson et al. 2011) of fertilization. From: Woody-plant ecosystems under climate change and air pollution—response consistencies across zonobiomes? Tree Physiol. 2017;37(6):706-732. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpx009 Tree Physiol | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
Figure 5. Annual BAI of Norway spruce (n = 143), European beech (n = 287) and sessile oak (n = 129) in pure and mixed stands of southern Germany from the mid-1950s through 2010 (as means ± SD). From each tree, two cores were taken for individual BAI assessment. Note strong growth reductions in spruce and beech rather than oak during drought years 1976 and 2003 (from Pretzsch et al. 2013a). From: Woody-plant ecosystems under climate change and air pollution—response consistencies across zonobiomes? Tree Physiol. 2017;37(6):706-732. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpx009 Tree Physiol | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
Figure 6. Schematic growth trends of oak (Q Figure 6. Schematic growth trends of oak (Q. petraea and Quercus robur) from 14 forest sites across Switzerland, Germany and Poland since the beginning of the survey in 1900 (figure unchanged from Pretzsch et al. 2014c, discerned patterns based on detailed quantitative data analysis). Above, temporal trends qualitatively from left to right: acceleration of tree size growth, stand growth rate and standing stock (original units as ‘m<sup>3</sup> yr<sup>−1</sup>’, ‘m<sup>3</sup> ha<sup>−1</sup> yr<sup>−1</sup>’, ‘m<sup>3</sup> ha<sup>−1</sup>’, respectively) over stand age (years). Below, from left to right: accelerated decrease of tree number over age (originally ‘ha<sup>−1</sup>’, years, respectively); upwards shift of the allometric relationship between tree volume growth and tree volume (originally ‘m<sup>3</sup> yr<sup>−1</sup>’, ‘m<sup>3</sup>’, respectively); upwards shift of the self-thinning line and accelerated passing of stands along the tree number-tree size trajectory (independent and dependent variable logarithmically transformed); dark green 1900 until 1960, light green 1960 until present (see Pretzsch et al. 2014c for details). From: Woody-plant ecosystems under climate change and air pollution—response consistencies across zonobiomes? Tree Physiol. 2017;37(6):706-732. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpx009 Tree Physiol | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com