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1. Phosphorus uptake and partitioning in two durum wheat cultivars with contrasting biomass allocation as affected by different P supply during grain filling

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Bofang Yan, Christian Morel, Thierry Robert, Mohamed El Mazlouzi, Alain Mollier, Interactions Sol Plante Atmosphère (ISPA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux-Aquitaine (Bordeaux Sciences Agro), Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich, Interactions Sol Plante Atmosphère (UMR ISPA), and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux-Aquitaine (Bordeaux Sciences Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)

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2. Zero hunger, 0106 biological sciences, Agroecosystem, Vegetative reproduction, Phosphorus, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Soil Science, Biomass, chemistry.chemical_element, Plant physiology, 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences, Plant Science, Biology, 01 natural sciences, Grain growth, Anthesis, chemistry, Agronomy, 040103 agronomy & agriculture, 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, Cultivar, 010606 plant biology & botany
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Aims : Phosphorus (P) export with harvested grains is a key step of the P cycle in agroecosystems. In wheat, the accumulation of P in grains originates from both exogenous and endogenous P sources. We investigated the effects of different post-anthesis P supply on P partitioning and P remobilization in two durum wheat cultivars with contrasting biomass allocation.Methods : Wheat plants were grown on a complete nutrient solution with sufficient P until anthesis. Thereafter, half of the plants were deprived of P and the other half was maintained on the complete nutrient solution. P uptake, allocation, remobilization, and traits related to yield and grain P were determined.Results : Modifications of post-anthesis P supply had no effect on grain yield. Grain P concentrations at maturity for deprived P supply ranged from 2.2 to 3.4 mg P g DW− 1. Without P, net P fluxes to grains essentially came from leaves (35%), roots (28%) and stems (17% ). With P, net P fluxes came mainly from post-antheis P uptake.Conclusions : Our results suggest that when the P nutrition of durum wheat is limited after anthesis, endogenous P remobilization can sustain grain growth with minor yield penalties if the plants are well supplied during vegetative growth.

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2020
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2. Are traded forest tree seeds a potential source of nonnative pests?

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Martin Hartmann, Salome Schneider, Iva Franić, Alain Roques, Eric Allan, Wyatt Williams, René Eschen, Richard A. Sniezko, Niklaus J. Grünwald, Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg, Simone Prospero, Marc Kenis, CABI Europe Switzerland, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich, Unité de recherche Zoologie Forestière (URZF), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Horticultural Crops Research Unit, USDA-ARS : Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture - US Forest Service, Partenaires INRAE, and Oregon Department of Agriculture

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0106 biological sciences, food.ingredient, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Forests, seed trade, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Trees, pathways risk assessment, Gymnosperm, food, Botany, Animals, Phytosanitary certification, Larva, insect pests, pest risk assessment, Ecology, biology, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, fungi, food and beverages, Sowing, phytosanitary risk, 15. Life on land, biology.organism_classification, Europe, Megastigmus, Cecidomyiidae, North America, Seeds, Curculio, fungal pathogens, PEST analysis, alien pests
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International audience; The international seed trade is considered relatively safe from a phytosanitary point of view and is therefore less regulated than trade in other plants for planting. However, the pests carried by traded seeds are not well known. We assessed insects and fungi in 58 traded seed lots of 11 gymnosperm and angiosperm tree species from North America, Europe, and Asia. Insects were detected by X-raying and molecular methods. The fungal community was characterized using high-throughput sequencing (HTS) and by growing fungi on non-selective agar. About 30% of the seed lots contained insect larvae. Gymnosperms contained mostly hymenopteran (Megastigmus spp.) and dipteran (Cecidomyiidae) larvae, while angiosperms contained lepidopteran (Cydia latiferreana) and coleopteran (Curculio spp.) larvae. HTS indicated the presence of fungi in all seed lots and fungi grew on non-selective agar from 96% of the seed lots. Fungal abundance and diversity were much higher than insect diversity and abundance, especially in angiosperm seeds. Almost 50% of all fungal exact sequence variants (ESVs) found in angiosperms were potential pathogens, in comparison with around 30% of potentially pathogenic ESVs found in gymnosperms. The results of this study indicate that seeds may pose a greater risk of pest introduction than previously believed or accounted for. A rapid risk assessment suggests that only a small number of species identified in this study is of phytosanitary concern. However, more research is needed to enable better risk assessment, especially to increase knowledge about the potential for transmission of fungi to seedlings and the host range and impact of identified species.

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2019
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3. Covariations between plant functional traits emerge from constraining parameterization of a terrestrial biosphere model

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Georg Wohlfahrt, Marc Peaucelle, Damiano Gianelle, Nicolas Delpierre, Dan Yakir, Philippe Ciais, Timo Vesala, Sylvain Kuppel, Eric Dufrêne, Mark A. Sutton, Thomas Kolb, Nicolas Vuichard, Cédric Bacour, Andreas Ibrom, Ladislav Šigut, Lutz Merbold, Sebastian Wolf, Leonardo Montagnani, Anders Lindroth, Nina Buchmann, Jiquan Chen, Carsten Gruening, Josep Peñuelas, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Tomomichi Kato, Stefano Minerbi, Andrej Varlagin, Beverly E. Law, Ivan Mammarella, Cristina Gimeno-Colera, Ankur R. Desai, Richard Joffre, Nicolas Viovy, Lukas Hörtnagl, Carole Helfter, Peter D. Blanken, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), NOVELTIS [Sté], ICOS-ATC (ICOS-ATC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Modélisation des Surfaces et Interfaces Continentales (MOSAIC), Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CEAB-CSIC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU), Institute of Agricultural Sciences [Zürich], Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Department of Environmental Sciences [Toledo USA], University of Toledo, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution (ESE), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-AgroParisTech-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences [Madison], University of Wisconsin-Madison, Centro di Ecologia Alpina, Fondazione Edmund Mach - Edmund Mach Foundation [Italie] (FEM), Joint Research Centre, Edinburgh Research Station, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Hokkaido University [Sapporo, Japan], Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science [Lund], Lund University [Lund], Department of Physics [Helsinki], Falculty of Science [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano Servizi Forestali, Servizi Forestali, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, Agenzia per l'Ambiente, Department of Physics [Montréal], McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Department of Physics, Institute of Ecology, Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck, Kiel University, Weizmann Institute of Science [Rehovot, Israël], Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Vrije universiteit = Free university of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU), Technical University of Denmark [Lyngby] (DTU), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), University of Helsinki-University of Helsinki, University of Innsbruck, Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [Barcelona] (UAB), VU University Amsterdam, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UM3)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Hokkaido University, McGill University, A.N.Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, and Weizmann Institute of Science

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0106 biological sciences, Biosphere model, Optimization, Eddy covariance, Atmospheric sciences, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Ecology and Environment, Terrestrial model, Data assimilation, FluxNet, Ecosystem model, Settore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA, ORCHIDEE, Plant functional traits, Ecosystem, Plant acclimatation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, SDG 15 - Life on Land, [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Biosphere, 15. Life on land, Assimilation, Trait, Environmental science, Plant acclimation
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Aim: The mechanisms of plant trait adaptation and acclimation are still poorly understood and, consequently, lack a consistent representation in terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs). Despite the increasing availability of geo-referenced trait observations, current databases are still insufficient to cover all vegetation types and environmental conditions. In parallel, the growing number of continuous eddy-covariance observations of energy and CO2 fluxes has enabled modellers to optimize TBMs with these data. Past attempts to optimize TBM parameters mostly focused on model performance, overlooking the ecological properties of ecosystems. The aim of this study was to assess the ecological consistency of optimized trait-related parameters while improving the model performances for gross primary productivity (GPP) at sites.Location: Worldwide. Time period: 1992–2012. Major taxa studied: Trees and C3 grasses. Methods: We optimized parameters of the ORCHIDEE model against 371 site-years of GPP estimates from the FLUXNET network, and we looked at global covariation among parameters and with climate. Results: The optimized parameter values were shown to be consistent with leaf-scale traits, in particular, with well-known trade-offs observed at the leaf level, echoing the leaf economic spectrum theory. Results showed a marked sensitivity of trait-related parameters to local bioclimatic variables and reproduced the observed relationships between traits and climate. Main conclusions: Our approach validates some biological processes implemented in the model and enables us to study ecological properties of vegetation at the canopy level, in addition to some traits that are difficult to observe experimentally. This study stresses the need for: (a) implementing explicit trade-offs and acclimation processes in TBMs; (b) improving the representation of processes to avoid model-specific parameterization; and (c) performing systematic measurements of traits at FLUXNET sites in order to gather information on plant ecophysiology and plant diversity, together with micro-meteorological conditions.

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2019
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4. Combining spectroscopic and isotopic techniques gives a dynamic view of phosphorus cycling in soil

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Chiara Pistocchi, Emmanuel Frossard, Michael S. Massey, Peter M. Vitousek, Federica Tamburini, Ruben Kretzschmar, Julian Helfenstein, Oliver A. Chadwick, Christian von Sperber, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation [Bonn], Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes (UMR Eco&Sols), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), University of California [Santa Barbara] (UCSB), University of California, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Swiss National Science Foundation (Project number 200021_162422), and U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, and Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515

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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Science, media_common.quotation_subject, General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, 01 natural sciences, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, chemistry.chemical_compound, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, Life Science, lcsh:Science, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, media_common, Multidisciplinary, Chemistry, Phosphorus, Extraction (chemistry), Biogeochemistry, 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences, General Chemistry, Phosphorus cycling, 15. Life on land, Phosphate, Speciation, Environmental chemistry, Soil water, 040103 agronomy & agriculture, 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, lcsh:Q, Cycling
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Current understanding of phosphorus (P) cycling in soils can be enhanced by integrating previously discrete findings concerning P speciation, exchange kinetics, and the underlying biological and geochemical processes. Here, we combine sequential extraction with P K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy and isotopic methods (33P and 18O in phosphate) to characterize P cycling on a climatic gradient in Hawaii. We link P pools to P species and estimate the turnover times for commonly considered P pools. Dissolved P turned over in seconds, resin-extractable P in minutes, NaOH-extractable inorganic P in weeks to months, and HCl-extractable P in years to millennia. Furthermore, we show that in arid-zone soils, some primary mineral P remains even after 150 ky of soil development, whereas in humid-zone soils of the same age, all P in all pools has been biologically cycled. The integrative information we provide makes possible a more dynamic, process-oriented conceptual model of P cycling in soils., Our understanding of phosphorus (P) cycling in soils, a basis for many ecosystem services, has been limited by the complexity of P forms and processes. Here the authors use spectroscopic and isotopic techniques to estimate turnover times of P pools and tease apart biologically-driven and geochemically-driven P fluxes.

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2018
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5. Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °c anthropogenic warming and beyond

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Martin Ziegler, Johannes Sutter, Thibaut Caley, Katarzyna Marcisz, Giuseppe Cortese, Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi, Anne de Vernal, Jacqueline Austermann, Alessio Rovere, Katrin J. Meissner, Carlo Barbante, Basil A. S. Davis, Paul J. Valdes, Anders E. Carlson, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Samuel L Jaccard, Jesper Sjolte, Eric W. Wolff, Stéphane Affolter, Sarah A. Finkelstein, Willy Tinner, Nerilie J. Abram, Thomas Felis, Zicheng Yu, Kelsey A. Dyez, Heinz Wanner, Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles, Max D. Holloway, Alan C. Mix, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Qing Yan, Paul Gierz, Bjørg Risebrobakken, Anne-Laure Daniau, Victor Brovkin, Erin L McClymont, Michal Kucera, Patricio A. Velasquez Alvárez, Daniele Colombaroli, Christoph C. Raible, Emilie Capron, Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas, Michael Sarnthein, Julia Gottschalk, Hubertus Fischer, Liping Zhou, Jennifer R. Marlon, Julien Emile-Geay, Olga V. Churakova (Sidorova), Marie-France Loutre, Brian F. Cumming, Daniel J. Lunt, Philippe Martinez, Jennifer Saleem Arrigo, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Thomas F. Stocker, Hendrik Vogel, Fortunat Joos, Pepijn Johannes Bakker, Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern] (CEP), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern]-Universität Bern [Bern], Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), University of Bern, Climate Change Research Centre [Sydney] (CCRC), University of New South Wales [Sydney] (UNSW), College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences [Corvallis] (CEOAS), Oregon State University (OSU), Australian National University (ANU), Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Centre for Ice and Climate [Copenhagen], Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques (EPOC), Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University [New York], Center for Marine Environmental Sciences [Bremen] (MARUM), Universität Bremen, University of Toronto, Department of Geography (UNIVERSITé DE DURHAM), Durham University, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), University of Geneva [Switzerland], Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes-CNR, University of Ca’ Foscari [Venice, Italy], UMR 5805 Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), GNS Science [Lower Hutt], GNS Science, Queen's University [Kingston, Canada], Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics [Lausanne], Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Centre de recherche sur la dynamique du système Terre (GEOTOP), Université de Montréal (UdeM)-McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]-École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM)-Concordia University [Montreal]-Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)-Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM)-Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), University of Southern California (USC), University of Nebraska [Lincoln], University of Nebraska System, Past Global Changes International Project Office (PAGES), Past Global Changes International Project Office, School of Geographical Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Monitoring, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University [New Haven], Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Glaces et Continents, Climats et Isotopes Stables (GLACCIOS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), National Center for Atmospheric Research [Boulder] (NCAR), Uni Research Climate, Uni Research Ltd, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), National Coordination Office, Washington, Institute of Geosciences [Kiel], Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Department of Geology, Quaternary Sciences, Lund University [Lund], Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Institute of Geography [Bern], Nansen-Zhu International Research Center (NZC), Institute of Atmospheric Physics [Beijing] (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS)-Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Lehigh University [Bethlehem], Department of Earth Sciences [Utrecht], Utrecht University [Utrecht], Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich, University of Peking, Peking University [Beijing], Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE)-Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM)-McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]-Université de Montréal (UdeM)-Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)-Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)-Concordia University [Montreal]-Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM), University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Stratigraphy and paleontology, Stratigraphy & paleontology, Wolff, Eric [0000-0002-5914-8531], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, sub-01, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences(all), 3705 Geology, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Ice cores climate, Paleoclimatology, Ecosystem, Settore CHIM/01 - Chimica Analitica, SDG 14 - Life Below Water, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, 13 Climate Action, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Global warming, 37 Earth Sciences, 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, Radiative forcing, 13. Climate action, [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, Greenhouse gas, Climatology, Polar amplification, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental science, Climate model, Ice sheet
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International audience; Over the past 3.5 million years, there have been several intervals when climate conditions were warmer than during the pre-industrial Holocene. Although past intervals of warming were forced differently than future anthropogenic change, such periods can provide insights into potential future climate impacts and ecosystem feedbacks, especially over centennial-to-millennial timescales that are often not covered by climate model simulations. Our observation-based synthesis of the understanding of past intervals with temperatures within the range of projected future warming suggests that there is a low risk of runaway greenhouse gas feedbacks for global warming of no more than 2 °C. However, substantial regional environmental impacts can occur. A global average warming of 1–2 °C with strong polar amplification has, in the past, been accompanied by significant shifts in climate zones and the spatial distribution of land and ocean ecosystems. Sustained warming at this level has also led to substantial reductions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, with sea-level increases of at least several metres on millennial timescales. Comparison of palaeo observations with climate model results suggests that, due to the lack of certain feedback processes, model-based climate projections may underestimate long-term warming in response to future radiative forcing by as much as a factor of two, and thus may also underestimate centennial-to-millennial-scale sea-level rise.

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2018
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6. Prediction of enteric methane production, yield and intensity of beef cattle using an intercontinental database

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Nico Peiren, Mark McGee, Zhongtang Yu, Sang Suk Lee, Sebastião de Campos Valadares Filho, Ali R. Bayat, Alexandre Berndt, Telma Teresinha Berchielli, Kristin E Hales, Angela Schwarm, André Bannink, E. Charmley, N. Andy Cole, Jan Dijkstra, Maguy Eugène, Cécile Martin, Ermias Kebreab, Carol Anne Duthie, David R. Yáñez-Ruiz, M. Niu, Michael Kreuzer, John Rooke, Les A. Crompton, David P. Casper, Christopher K. Reynolds, Juliana Duarte Messana, Padraig O'Kiely, Martin Hünerberg, Tim A. McAllister, Henk J. van Lingen, Alexander N. Hristov, Mariana Caetano, P. I. Hynd, Alex V. Chaves, Federal Office for Agriculture (Switzerland), European Commission, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (US), Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (Ireland), Department of Animal science, University of California [Davis] (UC Davis), University of California-University of California, Farmer’s Business Network, Animal Science Department, University of Tabriz [Tabriz], Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich, University of Adelaide, Department of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience, Unité Mixte de Recherche sur les Herbivores - UMR 1213 (UMRH), VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Teagasc Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Teagasc), Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food [Ottawa] (AAFC), Research Institute for Agricultural, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Faculty of Science, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), USDA-ARS : Agricultural Research Service, Department of Animal Science and Technology, Suncheon National University, Research and Development, EMBRAPA Southeast Livestock, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading (UOR), Milk Production, Production Systems, Natural resources institute Finland, Estacion Experimental del Zaidin-CSIC, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana], University of Illinois System-University of Illinois System, Wageningen Livestock Research, Wageningen / Aeres University of Applied Sciences, Animal Nutrition Group, Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Furst McNess Company, FACCE-JPI program Global Network (ANR-13-JFAC-0003-01), Scotland's Rural College (SCUR), Unité Mixte de Recherches sur les Herbivores - UMR 1213 (UMRH), VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Wageningen University and Research Centre [Wageningen] (WUR), University of California, Farmer's Business Network Inc., Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), SRUC, The University of Adelaide, Université Clermont Auvergne, Dunsany, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Animal Sciences Unit, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, USDA-ARS, Sunchon National University, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), University of Reading, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Estación Experimental del Zaidin (CSIC), The Ohio State University, Wageningen University & Research, The Pennsylvania State University, and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement

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0106 biological sciences, bovin, Animal Nutrition, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Forage, Beef cattle, computer.software_genre, 7. Clean energy, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Dietary variables, Yield (wine), Linear regression, Dry matter, méthane, Empirical modeling, Geographical region, Mathematics, 2. Zero hunger, base de données, Ecology, Database, 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences, prediction, Forage content, Diervoeding, 13. Climate action, Greenhouse gas, international, marsh gas, Methane emission, 040103 agronomy & agriculture, WIAS, 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, Animal Science and Zoology, Agronomy and Crop Science, computer, Intensity (heat transfer), Predictive modelling
Abstract

Enteric methane (CH) production attributable to beef cattle contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions. Reliably estimating this contribution requires extensive CH emission data from beef cattle under different management conditions worldwide. The objectives were to: 1) predict CH production (g d animal), yield [g (kg dry matter intake; DMI)] and intensity [g (kg average daily gain)] using an intercontinental database (data from Europe, North America, Brazil, Australia and South Korea); 2) assess the impact of geographic region, and of higher- and lower-forage diets. Linear models were developed by incrementally adding covariates. A K-fold cross-validation indicated that a CH production equation using only DMI that was fitted to all available data had a root mean square prediction error (RMSPE; % of observed mean) of 31.2%. Subsets containing data with ≥25% and ≤18% dietary forage contents had an RMSPE of 30.8 and 34.2%, with the all-data CH production equation, whereas these errors decreased to 29.3 and 28.4%, respectively, when using CH prediction equations fitted to these subsets. The RMSPE of the ≥25% forage subset further decreased to 24.7% when using multiple regression. Europe- and North America-specific subsets predicted by the best performing ≥25% forage multiple regression equation had RMSPE of 24.5 and 20.4%, whereas these errors were 24.5 and 20.0% with region-specific equations, respectively. The developed equations had less RMSPE than extant equations evaluated for all data (22.5 vs. 23.2%), for higher-forage (21.2 vs. 23.1%), but not for the lower-forage subsets (28.4 vs. 27.9%). Splitting the dataset by forage content did not improve CH yield or intensity predictions. Predicting beef cattle CH production using energy conversion factors, as applied by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, indicated that adequate forage content-based and region-specific energy conversion factors improve prediction accuracy and are preferred in national or global inventories., Authors gratefully acknowledge project funding from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Federal Appropriations under Project PEN 04539 and Accession number 1000803; the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI)’s ‘GLOBAL NETWORK’ project and the ‘Feeding and Nutrition Network’ (http://animalscience.psu.edu/fnn) of the Livestock Research Group within the Global Research Alliance for Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (www.globalresearchalliance.org); the Sesnon Endowed Chair program (UC Davis); the Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture, Berne, Switzerland; AHDB Beef and Lamb, the Scottish Government, Defra and the devolved administrations through the UK Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Inventory Research Platform; French National Research Agency through the FACCE-JPI program (ANR-13-JFAC-0003-01); the Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science, (Project No. PJ013448012018), RDA, Republic of Korea; the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Carbon Farming Futures Action on the Ground program; AOTGR2-0400); the financial support of the Reducing Emissions from Livestock Research Program, the National Livestock Methane Program, Meat and Livestock Australia, CSIRO and Ridley AgriProducts Pty, Ltd; the Institute of Science and Technology in Animal Science (INCTCA 465377/2014-9), the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Ireland (AGRI-I project); European Commission through SMEthane (FP7‐SME‐262,270); Beef Cattle Research Council of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association; the Cofund for Monitoring & Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases from Agri- and Silvi-culture (FACCE ERA-GAS)’s project Capturing Effects of Diet on Emissions from Ruminant Systems and the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (AF-EU-18010 & BO-4400159-01).

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2018
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7. Biological processes dominate phosphorus dynamics under low phosphorus availability in organic horizons of temperate forest soils

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Éva Mészáros, Chiara Pistocchi, Federica Tamburini, Emmanuel Frossard, Else K. Bünemann, Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes (UMR Eco&Sols), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture - Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (FiBL), and Swiss National Science Foundation [SNF project 200021E-149130].

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Mineralization, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Isotopic dilution, Soil Science, Radioisotope tracing, Sequential extraction, 33P, Litter addition, 01 natural sciences, Microbiology, Soil quality, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, [SDV.BV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, 2. Zero hunger, Abiotic component, Chemistry, Soil organic matter, Temperate forest, 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences, Mineralization (soil science), 15. Life on land, Plant litter, P-33, Microbial population biology, Environmental chemistry, Soil water, 040103 agronomy & agriculture, 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
Abstract

International audience; Understanding the mechanisms underlying phosphorus (P) availability is important to predict forest productivity in a changing environment. We quantified P fluxes and traced P from plant litter into inorganic and organic soil P pools in organic horizons from two contrasting temperate forest soils with low and high inorganic P availability, respectively. We incubated the two organic horizons with and without litter after labelling the soil solution with P-33 and performed sequential extractions at several time points in order to trace P dynamics in labile (water extractable, available and microbial P) and non-labile (non-living organic P, P bound to iron and aluminium and P bound to calcium) pools. Under low P availability, P fluxes were dominated by gross P mineralization, and microbial P immobilization accounted for up to 95% of gross P mineralization. Additionally, labile P in plant litter was rapidly incorporated into microbial P and only a small fraction ended up in the non-labile inorganic P pools. In contrast, P fluxes under high P availability were dominated by abiotic processes, particularly by fast (within 10 days) sorption/desorption reactions between the available P and the P bound to aluminium. These findings support the hypothesis that under low P availability biological processes control P fluxes. The observed tight cycling of P, with little efflux due to net P mineralization, suggests that the mineralization of organic P is driven by microbial P demand, and that the microbial community could compete with plants for available P.

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2018
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8. Carbon isotope discrimination during branch photosynthesis of Fagus sylvatica: field measurements using laser spectrometry

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Lisa Wingate, Patrick Sturm, Jérôme Ogée, Nina Buchmann, Lydia Gentsch, Peter Plüss, Albin Hammerle, Alexander Knohl, Matti Barthel, Thomas Baur, Rolf T. W. Siegwolf, Écologie fonctionnelle et physique de l'environnement (EPHYSE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Tofwerk AG, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Institut Paul Scherrer (IPS), Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research [Lincoln], Georg-August-University [Göttingen], and Marie Curie Excellence grant from the European Commission to AK (MEXT-CT-2006-042268) and benefited from a COST-SIBAE Short-term Scientific mission grant to LG (COST-STSM-ECOST-STSM-ES0806-280211-005035)

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0106 biological sciences, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Fagus sylvatica, Fagus sylvatic, Physiology, Vapour Pressure Deficit, laser spectrometers, Plant Science, photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, stem respiration, Botany, Fagus, branch bags, Isotopologue, Photosynthesis, Water content, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Carbon Isotopes, Laser spectrometry, Plant Stems, biology, Lasers, Spectrum Analysis, Diurnal temperature variation, Temperate forest, Plant Transpiration, Branch bags, CO2, Laser spectrometers, Leaf gas exchange, Open chambers, Photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination, Stem respiration, Carbon Dioxide, open chambers, biology.organism_classification, leaf gas exchange, Plant Leaves, Isotopes of carbon, Environmental science, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

Journal of Experimental Botany, 65 (6), ISSN:1460-2431, ISSN:0022-0957

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2014
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9. Physiological controls of the isotopic time lag between leaf assimilation and soil CO2 efflux

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Nina Buchmann, Yann Salmon, Romain L. Barnard, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Agroécologie [Dijon], and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement

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0106 biological sciences, Stomatal conductance, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Plant Science, Biology, 01 natural sciences, stable carbon isotopes, transpiration, Soil respiration, Botany, Respiration, [SDV.BV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology, Ecosystem, 13C, Transpiration, 2. Zero hunger, Terrestrial biological carbon cycle, Carbon sink, food and beverages, 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences, 15. Life on land, photosynthates, Environmental chemistry, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, 040103 agronomy & agriculture, caron transfer, 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, Ecosystem respiration, Agronomy and Crop Science, respiration, 010606 plant biology & botany
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EA EcolDur CT3; International audience; Environmental factors and physiological controls on photosynthesis influence the carbon isotopic signature of ecosystem respiration. Many ecosystem studies have used stable carbon isotopes to investigate environmental controls on plant carbon transfer from above- to belowground. However, a clear understanding of the internal mechanisms underlying time-lagged responses of carbon isotopic signatures in ecosystem respiration to environmental changes is still lacking. This study addressed plant physiological controls on the transfer time of recently assimilated carbon from assimilation to respiration. We produced a set of six wheat plants with varying physiological characteristics, by growing them under a wide range of nitrogen supply and soil water content levels under standardised conditions. The plants were pulse-labelled with 13C-CO2, and the isotopic signature of CO2 respired in the dark by plants and soil was monitored continuously over two days. Stomatal conductance (gs) was strongly related to the rate of transfer of recently assimilated carbon belowground. The higher gs, the faster newly assimilated carbon was allocated belowground and the faster it was respired in the soil. Our results suggest that carbon sink strength of plant tissues may be a major driver of transfer velocity of recently assimilated carbon to plant respiratory tissues and soil respiration.

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2014
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10. Eddy covariance measurement of ammonia fluxes: Comparison of high frequency correction methodologies

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G. Rana, P. Di Tommasi, Benjamin Loubet, T. Bertolini, Vincenzo Magliulo, Rossana Monica Ferrara, Pierre Cellier, Werner Eugster, Centre for Research for Agrobiology and Pedology, Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Environnement et Grandes Cultures (EGC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech, ISAFom, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich, Research Unit for Cropping Systems in Dry Environments, and AgroParisTech-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

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Atmospheric Science, Materials science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Analyser, Eddy covariance, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, Transfer function, QC-TILDAS, inductance, Flux (metallurgy), [SDV.SA.SF]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Silviculture, forestry, Anemometer, closed-path analyser, ammoniac, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Differential optical absorption spectroscopy, Far-infrared laser, Forestry, Ogive, ogive, Computational physics, 13. Climate action, transfer function, Agronomy and Crop Science
Abstract

Several methods are available for evaluating and correcting the underestimation of trace gas fluxes measured by eddy covariance (EC) method and due to the design and the setup of the employed equipment. Different frequency correction factors (CF) to apply to the measured EC ammonia (NH3) fluxes have been applied using the following approaches: (i) the spectral theoretical transfer function (CFTheor) with and without phase shift; (ii) the in situ ogive method (CFO); and (iii) the inductance correction method (CFL). The NH3 fluxes were measured in an experimental field located in south Italy, above a sorghum crop submitted to Mediterranean semi-arid climate and fertilized with urea. A fast analyser based on Tunable Infrared Laser Differential Absorption Spectroscopy (TILDAS) coupled with a quantum cascade (QC) laser was used to measure NH3 concentration at high frequency. The results showed that correction of the values of NH3 EC fluxes over natural surfaces are necessary for taking into account the dumping of high frequency contribution due to the coupling of ammonia fast analyser by QC-TILDAS and sonic anemometer. In particular, the calculated flux losses ranged between −23% (inductance method, with the CF threshold selected to 2.5) and −43% (experimental-ogive method); while the two theoretical transfer function approaches gave comparable loss estimates, i.e. −30 and −31% for the methods with time lag and phase shift, respectively.

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2012
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