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Anders Lindroth

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CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

Författare

  • S. Luyssaert
  • I. Inglima
  • M. Jung
  • A. D. Richardson
  • M. Reichsteins
  • D. Papale
  • S. L. Piao
  • E. -D. Schulzes
  • L. Wingate
  • G. Matteucci
  • L. Aragao
  • M. Aubinet
  • C. Beers
  • C. Bernhoffer
  • K. G. Black
  • D. Bonal
  • J. -M. Bonnefond
  • J. Chambers
  • P. Ciais
  • B. Cook
  • K. J. Davis
  • A. J. Dolman
  • B. Gielen
  • M. Goulden
  • J. Grace
  • A. Granier
  • A. Grelle
  • T. Griffis
  • T. Gruenwald
  • G. Guidolotti
  • P. J. Hanson
  • R. Harding
  • D. Y. Hollinger
  • L. R. Hutyra
  • P. Kolar
  • B. Kruijt
  • W. Kutsch
  • Fredrik Lagergren
  • T. Laurila
  • B. E. Law
  • G. Le Maire
  • Anders Lindroth
  • D. Loustau
  • Y. Malhi
  • J. Mateus
  • M. Migliavacca
  • L. Misson
  • L. Montagnani
  • J. Moncrieff
  • E. Moors
  • J. W. Munger
  • E. Nikinmaa
  • S. V. Ollinger
  • G. Pita
  • C. Rebmann
  • O. Roupsard
  • N. Saigusa
  • M. J. Sanz
  • G. Seufert
  • C. Sierra
  • M. -L. Smith
  • J. Tang
  • R. Valentini
  • T. Vesala
  • I. A. Janssens

Summary, in English

Terrestrial ecosystems sequester 2.1 Pg of atmospheric carbon annually. A large amount of the terrestrial sink is realized by forests. However, considerable uncertainties remain regarding the fate of this carbon over both short and long timescales. Relevant data to address these uncertainties are being collected at many sites around the world, but syntheses of these data are still sparse. To facilitate future synthesis activities, we have assembled a comprehensive global database for forest ecosystems, which includes carbon budget variables (fluxes and stocks), ecosystem traits (e.g. leaf area index, age), as well as ancillary site information such as management regime, climate, and soil characteristics. This publicly available database can be used to quantify global, regional or biome-specific carbon budgets; to re-examine established relationships; to test emerging hypotheses about ecosystem functioning [e.g. a constant net ecosystem production (NEP) to gross primary production (GPP) ratio]; and as benchmarks for model evaluations. In this paper, we present the first analysis of this database. We discuss the climatic influences on GPP, net primary production (NPP) and NEP and present the CO2 balances for boreal, temperate, and tropical forest biomes based on micrometeorological, ecophysiological, and biometric flux and inventory estimates. Globally, GPP of forests benefited from higher temperatures and precipitation whereas NPP saturated above either a threshold of 1500 mm precipitation or a mean annual temperature of 10 degrees C. The global pattern in NEP was insensitive to climate and is hypothesized to be mainly determined by nonclimatic conditions such as successional stage, management, site history, and site disturbance. In all biomes, closing the CO2 balance required the introduction of substantial biome-specific closure terms. Nonclosure was taken as an indication that respiratory processes, advection, and non-CO2 carbon fluxes are not presently being adequately accounted for.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

Publiceringsår

2007

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

2509-2537

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Global Change Biology

Volym

13

Issue

12

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Physical Geography

Nyckelord

  • net ecosystem productivity
  • net primary productivity
  • productivity
  • gross primary
  • global database
  • forest ecosystems
  • carbon cycle
  • CO2

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1354-1013