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IUBS Centenary Webinar Series: Fifth Lecture: How will plants adapt to a high CO2 world?
Climate change is the defining issue of our generation. In this presentation, Christine Foyer, Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Birmingham, will introduce the topic of climate change, the greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases, covering photosynthesis and its importance in ecosystems, particularly in relation to the carbon dioxide fertilisation effect and nature-based solutions to climate change. She will discuss how scientists measure the impact of high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in crops and forests using Free-Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment (FACE) sites. Two examples will be used: the FACE site in Urbana USA that focusses on crops and the Birmingham Institute for Forest Research (BIFoR) FACE site that studies how forest ecosystems will respond to future increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Christine Foyer will discuss some of the results obtained to date and their implications for society and the UK roadmap to net zero.Date: 23 November 2023, 03:00 PM CET
Location: online
Organizers: International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)
Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L3fetlo0TsecgqO3TYgY-g#/registration
Details: https://iubs.org/events/iubs-centenary-webinar-series-fifth-lecture/