摘要
A commentary on our recent article on Journal of Plant Ecology(Liang et al.2013)by Smith(2014)argues that it is not appro-priate to lump data from different experiments together to demonstrate the thermal acclimation of leaf dark respiration.We agree that many factors,as listed by Smith(2014),would impact the responses of leaf carbon exchanges to warming and the consequent thermal acclimation.Although not all factors were included,we discussed in the article that light and vapor pressure deficit(VPD)could have affected our conclusions(Liang et al.2013).The“acclimation”in our paper did not exactly accord with the physiological definition(Atkin and Tjoelker 2003;Smith and Dukes 2013).It is hard to make the environ-mental factors as well as warming magnitude coherent in a syn-thesis study because the data were from different experiments.Therefore,the“acclimation”in our meta-analysis was more like an apparent one rather than the physiologically intrinsic one as defined by Atkin et al.
