Response to Comment on "Unexpected reversal of C<sub>3</sub> versus C<sub>4</sub> grass response to elevated CO<sub>2</sub> during a 20-year field experiment".

Reich, Peter B; Hobbie, Sarah E; Lee, Tali D; Pastore, Melissa A · Science · 2018

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Wolf and Ziska suggest that soil and species attributes can explain an unexpected 20-year reversal of C<sub>3</sub>-C<sub>4</sub> grass responses to elevated CO<sub>2</sub> This is consistent with our original interpretation; however, we disagree with the assertion that such explanations somehow render our results irrelevant for questioning a long-standing paradigm of plant response to CO<sub>2</sub> based on C<sub>3</sub>-C<sub>4</sub> differences in photosynthetic pathway.

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