Impact of Climate Change Drivers on C4 Plants: A Review

Abstract

The productivity of plant community is affected by climate change drivers in three pathways including direct effects of drivers on plants, the community response of species abundances to drivers and the feedback effect of community change on productivity. The productivity of C4 plants is significantly influenced by C4 metabolic process of plants. Apart from these metabolic pathways, one of the most essential elements that influence the yield of C4 plants are seasonality and temperature. In addition to all, these climatic climate change drivers have a great influence on the productivity of C4 plants. The present review focuses on how C4 plants mitigate climate change.