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Jonas Ardö

Jonas Ardö

Professor

Jonas Ardö

Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale

Author

  • Alice S.A. Johnston
  • Andrew Meade
  • Jonas Ardö
  • Nicola Arriga
  • Andy Black
  • Peter D. Blanken
  • Damien Bonal
  • Christian Brümmer
  • Alessandro Cescatti
  • Jiří Dušek
  • Alexander Graf
  • Beniamino Gioli
  • Ignacio Goded
  • Christopher M. Gough
  • Hiroki Ikawa
  • Rachhpal Jassal
  • Hideki Kobayashi
  • Vincenzo Magliulo
  • Giovanni Manca
  • Leonardo Montagnani
  • Fernando E. Moyano
  • Jørgen E. Olesen
  • Torsten Sachs
  • Changliang Shao
  • Torbern Tagesson
  • Georg Wohlfahrt
  • Sebastian Wolf
  • William Woodgate
  • Andrej Varlagin
  • Chris Venditti

Summary, in English

Ecosystem respiration is a major component of the global terrestrial carbon cycle and is strongly influenced by temperature. The global extent of the temperature–ecosystem respiration relationship, however, has not been fully explored. Here, we test linear and threshold models of ecosystem respiration across 210 globally distributed eddy covariance sites over an extensive temperature range. We find thresholds to the global temperature–ecosystem respiration relationship at high and low air temperatures and mid soil temperatures, which represent transitions in the temperature dependence and sensitivity of ecosystem respiration. Annual ecosystem respiration rates show a markedly reduced temperature dependence and sensitivity compared to half-hourly rates, and a single mid-temperature threshold for both air and soil temperature. Our study indicates a distinction in the influence of environmental factors, including temperature, on ecosystem respiration between latitudinal and climate gradients at short (half-hourly) and long (annual) timescales. Such climatological differences in the temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration have important consequences for the terrestrial net carbon sink under ongoing climate change.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publishing year

2021-02-22

Language

English

Pages

487-494

Publication/Series

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Volume

5

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Topic

  • Climate Research
  • Physical Geography

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2397-334X