
Anders Ahlström
Universitetslektor

The dry season intensity as a key driver of NPP trends
Författare
Summary, in English
We analyze the impacts of changing dry season length and intensity on vegetation productivity and biomass. Our results show a wetness asymmetry in dry ecosystems, with dry seasons becoming drier and wet seasons becoming wetter, likely caused by climate change. The increasingly intense dry seasons were consistently correlated with a decreasing trend in net primary productivity (NPP) and biomass from different products and could potentially mean a reduction of 10–13% in NPP by 2100. We found that annual NPP in dry ecosystems is particularly sensitive to the intensity of the dry season, whereas an increase in precipitation during the wet season has a smaller effect. We conclude that changes in water availability over the dry season affect vegetation throughout the whole year, driving changes in regional NPP. Moreover, these results suggest that usage of seasonal water fluxes is necessary to improve our understanding of the link between water availability and the land carbon cycle.
Avdelning/ar
- Biologiska institutionen
- Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
- MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
Publiceringsår
2016
Språk
Svenska
Sidor
2632-2639
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Geophysical Research Letters
Volym
43
Issue
6
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Ämne
- Climate Research
Nyckelord
- dry season length land carbon cycle drought 0428 Carbon cycling 1630 Impacts of global change 1655 Water cycles 1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling 1616 Climate variability
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1944-8007