title: Photosynthetic responses to altitude: an explanation based on optimality principles.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.|Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia.
authors.forename: Han
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.|Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia.|AXA Chair Programme in Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK.
authors.forename: I Colin
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Prentice
authors.affiliation: AXA Chair Programme in Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK.|United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Centre for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
authors.forename: Tyler W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia.|Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Trevor F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Keenan
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia.
authors.forename: Ian J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.|Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, H3C 3P8, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Changhui
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peng
mesh_terms: D000531:Altitude; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D008954:Models, Biological; D010788:Photosynthesis; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide
keywords: atmospheric pressure; attitude; leaf temperature; leaf-internal to ambient CO2 partial pressures ratio (ci : ca); optimality; photosynthetic capacity; theory