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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - Most of the currently experienced global environmental changes (rising atmospheric
    CO2 concentrations, warming, altered amount and pattern of precipitation, and
    increased nutrient load) directly or indirectly affect ecosystem surface energy
    balance and plant transpiration. As a consequence, the relative humidity of the
    air surrounding the vegetation changes, thus creating a feedback loop whose net
    effect on transpiration and finally productivity is not trivial to quantify. Forcedly,
    in any global change experiment with the above drivers, we can only treat small
    plots, or ‘islands’, of vegetation. This means that the treated plots will likely
    experience the ambient humidity conditions influenced by the surrounding, non-treated
    vegetation. Experimental assessments of global change effects will thus systematically
    lack modifications originating from these potentially important feedback mechanisms,
    introducing a bias of unknown magnitude in all measurements of processes directly
    or indirectly depending on plant transpiration. We call this potential bias the
    ‘island effect’. Here, we discuss its implications in various global change experiments
    with plants. We also suggest ways to complement experiments using modelling approaches
    and observational studies. Ultimately, there is no obvious solution to deal with
    the island effect in field experiments and only models can provide an estimate
    of modification of responses by these feedbacks. However, we suggest that increasing
    the awareness of the island effect among both experimental researchers and modellers
    will greatly improve the interpretation of vegetation responses to global change.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Sebastian
      foaf_name: Leuzinger, Sebastian
      foaf_surname: Leuzinger
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Simone
      foaf_name: Fatichi, Simone
      foaf_surname: Fatichi
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=cf8e546b-a9b0-11f0-a43b-aa89ed1b56d6
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Jarrod
      foaf_name: Cusens, Jarrod
      foaf_surname: Cusens
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Christian
      foaf_name: Körner, Christian
      foaf_surname: Körner
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Pascal A.
      foaf_name: Niklaus, Pascal A.
      foaf_surname: Niklaus
  bibo_doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plv092
  bibo_volume: 7
  dct_date: 2015^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/2041-2851
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: Oxford University Press@
  dct_subject:
  - DGVM
  - Elevated CO2
  - FACE
  - Hydrology
  - Land–atmosphere coupling
  - Vegetation feedback effects
  - Warming
  dct_title: 'The ‘island effect’ in terrestrial global change experiments: a problem
    with no solution?@'
  fabio_hasPubmedId: '26216468'
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