CO2 -responsiveness of leaf isoprene emission: why do species differ?

Leaf isoprene emission rate, I, decreases with increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration with major implications for global change. There is a significant interspecific variability in [CO2 ]-responsiveness of I, but the extent of this variation is unknown and its reasons are not understood. We hypothesized that the magnitude of emission reduction reflects the size and changeability of precursor pools responsible for isoprene emission (dimethylallyl diphosphate, DMADP, and 2-methyl-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate, MEcDP). Changes in I and intermediate pool sizes upon increase of [CO2 ] from 400 to 1,500 μmol mol-1 were studied in nine woody species spanning boreal to tropical ecosystems. I varied 10-fold, total substrate pool size 37-fold and the ratio of DMADP/MEcDP pool sizes 57-fold. At higher [CO2 ], I was reduced on average by 65%, but [CO2 ]-responsiveness varied an order of magnitude across species. The increase in [CO2 ] resulted in concomitant reductions in both substrate pools. The variation in [CO2 ]-responsiveness across species species scaled with the reduction in pool sizes, substrate pool size supported, and the share of DMADP in total substrate pool. This study highlights a major interspecific variation in [CO2 ]-responsiveness of isoprene emission and conclusively links this variation to interspecific variability in [CO2 ] effects on substrate availability and intermediate pool size. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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