22 results on '"Keenan, Trevor F."'
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2. Increased photosynthesis during spring drought in energy-limited ecosystems.
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Miller, David L., Wolf, Sebastian, Fisher, Joshua B., Zaitchik, Benjamin F., Xiao, Jingfeng, and Keenan, Trevor F.
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SPRING ,ATMOSPHERIC temperature ,PHOTOSYNTHESIS ,DROUGHTS ,ECOSYSTEMS ,REMOTE sensing - Abstract
Drought is often thought to reduce ecosystem photosynthesis. However, theory suggests there is potential for increased photosynthesis during meteorological drought, especially in energy-limited ecosystems. Here, we examine the response of photosynthesis (gross primary productivity, GPP) to meteorological drought across the water-energy limitation spectrum. We find a consistent increase in eddy covariance GPP during spring drought in energy-limited ecosystems (83% of the energy-limited sites). Half of spring GPP sensitivity to precipitation was predicted solely from the wetness index (R
2 = 0.47, p < 0.001), with weaker relationships in summer and fall. Our results suggest GPP increases during spring drought for 55% of vegetated Northern Hemisphere lands (>30° N). We then compare these results to terrestrial biosphere model outputs and remote sensing products. In contrast to trends detected in eddy covariance data, model mean GPP always declined under spring precipitation deficits after controlling for air temperature and light availability. While remote sensing products captured the observed negative spring GPP sensitivity in energy-limited ecosystems, terrestrial biosphere models proved insufficiently sensitive to spring precipitation deficits. Ecosystem productivity generally declines under drought. Here, the authors show that spring droughts are linked to increases in gross primary productivity in energy-limited ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere, and that terrestrial biosphere models tend not to capture this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2023
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3. AmeriFlux BASE data pipeline to support network growth and data sharing.
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Chu, Housen, Christianson, Danielle S., Cheah, You-Wei, Pastorello, Gilberto, O'Brien, Fianna, Geden, Joshua, Ngo, Sy-Toan, Hollowgrass, Rachel, Leibowitz, Karla, Beekwilder, Norman F., Sandesh, Megha, Dengel, Sigrid, Chan, Stephen W., Santos, André, Delwiche, Kyle, Yi, Koong, Buechner, Christin, Baldocchi, Dennis, Papale, Dario, and Keenan, Trevor F.
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INFORMATION sharing ,DATA libraries ,SOCIAL networks ,UPLOADING of data ,QUALITY assurance ,QUALITY control ,PIPELINE inspection - Abstract
AmeriFlux is a network of research sites that measure carbon, water, and energy fluxes between ecosystems and the atmosphere using the eddy covariance technique to study a variety of Earth science questions. AmeriFlux's diversity of ecosystems, instruments, and data-processing routines create challenges for data standardization, quality assurance, and sharing across the network. To address these challenges, the AmeriFlux Management Project (AMP) designed and implemented the BASE data-processing pipeline. The pipeline begins with data uploaded by the site teams, followed by the AMP team's quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC), ingestion of site metadata, and publication of the BASE data product. The semi-automated pipeline enables us to keep pace with the rapid growth of the network. As of 2022, the AmeriFlux BASE data product contains 3,130 site years of data from 444 sites, with standardized units and variable names of more than 60 common variables, representing the largest long-term data repository for flux-met data in the world. The standardized, quality-ensured data product facilitates multisite comparisons, model evaluations, and data syntheses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. Biome-scale temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration revealed by atmospheric CO2 observations.
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Sun, Wu, Luo, Xiangzhong, Fang, Yuanyuan, Shiga, Yoichi P., Zhang, Yao, Fisher, Joshua B., Keenan, Trevor F., and Michalak, Anna M.
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- 2023
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5. Diminishing seasonality of subtropical water availability in a warmer world dominated by soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks.
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Zhou, Sha, Williams, A. Park, Lintner, Benjamin R., Findell, Kirsten L., Keenan, Trevor F., Zhang, Yao, and Gentine, Pierre
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WATER supply ,GLOBAL warming ,EVAPOTRANSPIRATION ,SOCIAL impact ,SOIL moisture ,SOILS ,ATMOSPHERE - Abstract
Global warming is expected to cause wet seasons to get wetter and dry seasons to get drier, which would have broad social and ecological implications. However, the extent to which this seasonal paradigm holds over land remains unclear. Here we examine seasonal changes in surface water availability (precipitation minus evaporation, P–E) from CMIP5 and CMIP6 projections. While the P–E seasonal cycle does broadly intensify over much of the land surface, ~20% of land area experiences a diminished seasonal cycle, mostly over subtropical regions and the Amazon. Using land–atmosphere coupling experiments, we demonstrate that 63% of the seasonality reduction is driven by seasonally varying soil moisture (SM) feedbacks on P–E. Declining SM reduces evapotranspiration and modulates circulation to enhance moisture convergence and increase P–E in the dry season but not in the wet season. Our results underscore the importance of SM–atmosphere feedbacks for seasonal water availability changes in a warmer climate. Here, the authors find increased dry–season and decreased wet–season water availability over subtropical regions and the Amazon. This is caused by seasonally varying soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks under global warming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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6. Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2.
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Zhang, Yao, Gentine, Pierre, Luo, Xiangzhong, Lian, Xu, Liu, Yanlan, Zhou, Sha, Michalak, Anna M., Sun, Wu, Fisher, Joshua B., Piao, Shilong, and Keenan, Trevor F.
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VEGETATION greenness ,STATISTICAL learning ,VEGETATION dynamics ,DROUGHTS ,ARID regions ,WATER supply ,ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide - Abstract
Water availability plays a critical role in shaping terrestrial ecosystems, particularly in low- and mid-latitude regions. The sensitivity of vegetation growth to precipitation strongly regulates global vegetation dynamics and their responses to drought, yet sensitivity changes in response to climate change remain poorly understood. Here we use long-term satellite observations combined with a dynamic statistical learning approach to examine changes in the sensitivity of vegetation greenness to precipitation over the past four decades. We observe a robust increase in precipitation sensitivity (0.624% yr
−1 ) for drylands, and a decrease (−0.618% yr−1 ) for wet regions. Using model simulations, we show that the contrasting trends between dry and wet regions are caused by elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2 ). eCO2 universally decreases the precipitation sensitivity by reducing leaf-level transpiration, particularly in wet regions. However, in drylands, this leaf-level transpiration reduction is overridden at the canopy scale by a large proportional increase in leaf area. The increased sensitivity for global drylands implies a potential decrease in ecosystem stability and greater impacts of droughts in these vulnerable ecosystems under continued global change. Changes in vegetation responses to precipitation may be hydroclimate dependent. Here the authors reveal contrasting trends of vegetation sensitivity to precipitation in drylands vs. wetter ecosystems over the last 4 decades and identify increased CO2 as a major contributing factor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
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7. Tropical extreme droughts drive long-term increase in atmospheric CO2 growth rate variability.
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Luo, Xiangzhong and Keenan, Trevor F.
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DROUGHT management ,DROUGHTS ,ATMOSPHERIC temperature ,WATER supply ,CARBON cycle ,CARBON dioxide ,MACHINE learning - Abstract
The terrestrial carbon sink slows the accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO
2 ) in the atmosphere by absorbing roughly 30% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, but varies greatly from year to year. The resulting variations in the atmospheric CO2 growth rate (CGR) have been related to tropical temperature and water availability. The apparent sensitivity of CGR to tropical temperature ( γ CGR T ) has changed markedly over the past six decades, however, the drivers of the observation to date remains unidentified. Here, we use atmospheric observations, multiple global vegetation models and machine learning products to analyze the cause of the sensitivity change. We found that a threefold increase in γ CGR T emerged due to the long-term changes in the magnitude of CGR variability (i.e., indicated by one standard deviation of CGR; STDCGR ), which increased 34.7% from 1960-1979 to 1985-2004 and subsequently decreased 14.4% in 1997-2016. We found a close relationship (r2 = 0.75, p < 0.01) between STDCGR and the tropical vegetated area (23°S – 23°N) affected by extreme droughts, which influenced 6-9% of the tropical vegetated surface. A 1% increase in the tropical area affected by extreme droughts led to about 0.14 Pg C yr−1 increase in STDCGR . The historical changes in STDCGR were dominated by extreme drought-affected areas in tropical Africa and Asia, and semi-arid ecosystems. The outsized influence of extreme droughts over a small fraction of vegetated surface amplified the interannual variability in CGR and explained the observed long-term dynamics of γ CGR T . The apparent temperature sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate has increased markedly over the past six decades, however, the increase remains unexplained. Here we show that tropical extreme droughts amplified the interannual variability in atmospheric CO2 growth rate and drove the sensitivity change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
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8. Exacerbated drought impacts on global ecosystems due to structural overshoot.
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Zhang, Yao, Keenan, Trevor F., and Zhou, Sha
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- 2021
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9. Global variation in the fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to photosynthesis.
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Luo, Xiangzhong, Keenan, Trevor F., Chen, Jing M., Croft, Holly, Colin Prentice, I., Smith, Nicholas G., Walker, Anthony P., Wang, Han, Wang, Rong, Xu, Chonggang, and Zhang, Yao
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NITROGEN ,PHOTOSYNTHESIS ,RANDOM forest algorithms ,SOIL acidity ,REMOTE sensing - Abstract
Plants invest a considerable amount of leaf nitrogen in the photosynthetic enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO), forming a strong coupling of nitrogen and photosynthetic capacity. Variability in the nitrogen-photosynthesis relationship indicates different nitrogen use strategies of plants (i.e., the fraction nitrogen allocated to RuBisCO; fLNR), however, the reason for this remains unclear as widely different nitrogen use strategies are adopted in photosynthesis models. Here, we use a comprehensive database of in situ observations, a remote sensing product of leaf chlorophyll and ancillary climate and soil data, to examine the global distribution in fLNR using a random forest model. We find global fLNR is 18.2 ± 6.2%, with its variation largely driven by negative dependence on leaf mass per area and positive dependence on leaf phosphorus. Some climate and soil factors (i.e., light, atmospheric dryness, soil pH, and sand) have considerable positive influences on fLNR regionally. This study provides insight into the nitrogen-photosynthesis relationship of plants globally and an improved understanding of the global distribution of photosynthetic potential. The fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to RuBisCO indicates differing nitrogen use strategies of plants and varies considerably. Here the authors show that this variation is largely driven by leaf thickness and phosphorus content with light intensity, atmospheric dryness and soil pH also having considerable influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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10. Global evidence for the acclimation of ecosystem photosynthesis to light.
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Luo, Xiangzhong and Keenan, Trevor F.
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- 2020
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11. Nature-based climate solutions: align policy with science.
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Keenan, Trevor F., Novick, Kimberly A., Anderegg, William R. L., and Normile, Caroline P.
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Letter to the Editor [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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12. Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.
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Huang, Mengtian, Piao, Shilong, Ciais, Philippe, Peñuelas, Josep, Wang, Xuhui, Keenan, Trevor F., Peng, Shushi, Berry, Joseph A., Wang, Kai, Mao, Jiafu, Alkama, Ramdane, Cescatti, Alessandro, Cuntz, Matthias, De Deurwaerder, Hannes, Gao, Mengdi, He, Yue, Liu, Yongwen, Luo, Yiqi, Myneni, Ranga B., and Niu, Shuli
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- 2019
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13. Widespread inhibition of daytime ecosystem respiration.
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Keenan, Trevor F., Migliavacca, Mirco, Papale, Dario, Baldocchi, Dennis, Reichstein, Markus, Torn, Margaret, and Wutzler, Thomas
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- 2019
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14. Towards a universal model for carbon dioxide uptake by plants.
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Wang, Han, Prentice, I. Colin, Keenan, Trevor F., Davis, Tyler W., Wright, Ian J., Cornwell, William K., Evans, Bradley J., and Peng, Changhui
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- 2017
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15. Net carbon uptake has increased through warming-induced changes in temperate forest phenology.
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Keenan, Trevor F., Gray, Josh, Friedl, Mark A., Toomey, Michael, Bohrer, Gil, Hollinger, David Y., Munger, J. William, O'Keefe, John, Schmid, Hans Peter, Wing, Ian Sue, Yang, Bai, and Richardson, Andrew D.
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CARBON sequestration ,FORESTS & forestry ,PLANT phenology ,ECOSYSTEMS ,PHOTOSYNTHESIS - Abstract
The timing of phenological events exerts a strong control over ecosystem function and leads to multiple feedbacks to the climate system. Phenology is inherently sensitive to temperature (although the exact sensitivity is disputed) and recent warming is reported to have led to earlier spring, later autumn and increased vegetation activity. Such greening could be expected to enhance ecosystem carbon uptake, although reports also suggest decreased uptake for boreal forests. Here we assess changes in phenology of temperate forests over the eastern US during the past two decades, and quantify the resulting changes in forest carbon storage. We combine long-term ground observations of phenology, satellite indices, and ecosystem-scale carbon dioxide flux measurements, along with 18 terrestrial biosphere models. We observe a strong trend of earlier spring and later autumn. In contrast to previous suggestions we show that carbon uptake through photosynthesis increased considerably more than carbon release through respiration for both an earlier spring and later autumn. The terrestrial biosphere models tested misrepresent the temperature sensitivity of phenology, and thus the effect on carbon uptake. Our analysis of the temperature-phenology-carbon coupling suggests a current and possible future enhancement of forest carbon uptake due to changes in phenology. This constitutes a negative feedback to climate change, and is serving to slow the rate of warming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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16. Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise.
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Keenan, Trevor F., Hollinger, David Y., Bohrer, Gil, Dragoni, Danilo, Munger, J. William, Schmid, Hans Peter, and Richardson, Andrew D.
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PHOTOSYNTHESIS , *WATER use , *HYDROLOGIC cycle , *CARBON cycle , *STOMATA - Abstract
Terrestrial plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, a process that is accompanied by the loss of water vapour from leaves. The ratio of water loss to carbon gain, or water-use efficiency, is a key characteristic of ecosystem function that is central to the global cycles of water, energy and carbon. Here we analyse direct, long-term measurements of whole-ecosystem carbon and water exchange. We find a substantial increase in water-use efficiency in temperate and boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere over the past two decades. We systematically assess various competing hypotheses to explain this trend, and find that the observed increase is most consistent with a strong CO2 fertilization effect. The results suggest a partial closure of stomata-small pores on the leaf surface that regulate gas exchange-to maintain a near-constant concentration of CO2 inside the leaf even under continually increasing atmospheric CO2 levels. The observed increase in forest water-use efficiency is larger than that predicted by existing theory and 13 terrestrial biosphere models. The increase is associated with trends of increasing ecosystem-level photosynthesis and net carbon uptake, and decreasing evapotranspiration. Our findings suggest a shift in the carbon- and water-based economics of terrestrial vegetation, which may require a reassessment of the role of stomatal control in regulating interactions between forests and climate change, and a re-evaluation of coupled vegetation-climate models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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17. Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring
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Stocker, Benjamin D., Zscheischler, Jakob, Keenan, Trevor F., Prentice, I. Colin, Seneviratne, Sonia I., and Peñuelas, Josep
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2. Zero hunger ,13. Climate action ,530 Physics ,15. Life on land - Abstract
Satellite retrievals of information about the Earth’s surface are widely used to monitor global terrestrial photosynthesis and primary production and to examine the ecological impacts of droughts. Methods for estimating photosynthesis from space commonly combine information on vegetation greenness, incoming radiation, temperature and atmospheric demand for water (vapour-pressure deficit), but do not account for the direct effects of low soil moisture. They instead rely on vapour-pressure deficit as a proxy for dryness, despite widespread evidence that soil moisture deficits have a direct impact on vegetation, independent of vapour-pressure deficit. Here, we use a globally distributed measurement network to assess the effect of soil moisture on photosynthesis, and identify a common bias in an ensemble of satellite-based estimates of photosynthesis that is governed by the magnitude of soil moisture effects on photosynthetic light-use efficiency. We develop methods to account for the influence of soil moisture and estimate that soil moisture effects reduce global annual photosynthesis by ~15%, increase interannual variability by more than 100% across 25% of the global vegetated land surface, and amplify the impacts of extreme events on primary production. These results demonstrate the importance of soil moisture effects for monitoring carbon-cycle variability and drought impacts on vegetation productivity from space.
18. Phenology: Spring greening in a warming world.
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Keenan, Trevor F.
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LEAF development , *GLOBAL warming & the environment , *PLANT phenology , *LEAF temperature , *DORMANCY in plants - Abstract
The article discusses plant phenology in relation to climate change, noting the slowing sensitivity of leaf emergence to temperature changes. An issue article by Y. H. Fu and others on the topic is noted. The role of chilling in release deciduous trees' leaves from dormancy is addressed in relation to warmer winter temperatures.
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- 2015
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19. Corrigendum: Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake.
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Keenan, Trevor F., Prentice, I. Colin, Canadell, Josep G., Williams, Christopher A., Wang, Han, Raupach, Michael, and Collatz, G. James
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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13428 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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20. Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake.
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Keenan, Trevor F, Prentice, I. Colin, Canadell, Josep G, Williams, Christopher A, Wang, Han, Raupach, Michael, and Collatz, G. James
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- 2016
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21. Keenan et al. reply.
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Keenan, Trevor F., Hollinger, David Y., Bohrer, Gil, Dragoni, Danilo, Munger, J. William, Schmid, Hans Peter, and Richardson, Andrew D.
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FORESTRY research , *WATER use , *ATMOSPHERIC carbon monoxide , *TROPOSPHERIC ozone , *WATER efficiency , *TROPOSPHERE - Abstract
replying to C. D. Holmes 507, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13113 (2014)Forests have become more efficient at using water over the past two decades. A series of hypotheses exist to explain this trend, but the only credible explanation to date is a response to rising atmospheric CO2. Keenan et al. show that the observed trend is physiologically plausible, but is much larger than expected from conventional theory and experimental evidence. This has led to suggestions that processes other than increased atmospheric CO2 may have contributed to the observed trend. One such process that has yet to be examined is the effect of tropospheric ozone on forest water-use efficiency (WUE). In the accompanying Comment, Holmes reports that ozone concentrations have declined in the northeastern and midwestern USA by about 50% from 1995 to 2010. Using empirical relationships, he estimates that this decline could explain roughly 15% of the reported increase in WUE over North America, and a significantly lower proportion of the trend in Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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22. Biome-scale temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration revealed by atmospheric CO 2 observations.
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Sun W, Luo X, Fang Y, Shiga YP, Zhang Y, Fisher JB, Keenan TF, and Michalak AM
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- Temperature, Carbon Cycle, Respiration, Ecosystem, Carbon Dioxide
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The temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration regulates how the terrestrial carbon sink responds to a warming climate but has been difficult to constrain observationally beyond the plot scale. Here we use observations of atmospheric CO
2 concentrations from a network of towers together with carbon flux estimates from state-of-the-art terrestrial biosphere models to characterize the temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration, as represented by the Arrhenius activation energy, over various North American biomes. We infer activation energies of 0.43 eV for North America and 0.38 eV to 0.53 eV for major biomes therein, which are substantially below those reported for plot-scale studies (approximately 0.65 eV). This discrepancy suggests that sparse plot-scale observations do not capture the spatial-scale dependence and biome specificity of the temperature sensitivity. We further show that adjusting the apparent temperature sensitivity in model estimates markedly improves their ability to represent observed atmospheric CO2 variability. This study provides observationally constrained estimates of the temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration directly at the biome scale and reveals that temperature sensitivities at this scale are lower than those based on earlier plot-scale studies. These findings call for additional work to assess the resilience of large-scale carbon sinks to warming., (© 2023. The Author(s).)- Published
- 2023
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