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Wenxin Zhang

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Co-regulation of temperature and moisture in the irrigated agricultural ecosystem productivity

Författare

  • Chunyu Wang
  • Sien Li
  • Mousong Wu
  • Wenxin Zhang
  • Zhenyu Guo
  • Siyu Huang
  • Danni Yang

Summary, in English

Agroecosystem photosynthesis is key to coping with global climate change. In farmland where human activities are highly involved, the interaction between environmental factors and their influences on gross primary productivity (GPP) are insufficiently understood. Particularly, the irrigation and mulching in water-saving agriculture can alter the crop responses to environmental change. Based on eddy covariance measurements of maize fields under mulched drip irrigation (DM) and mulched border irrigation (BM) in arid areas of Northwest China from 2014 to 2018, we systematically studied the interaction between multiple environmental factors and their independent effects on GPP using structural equation modeling, partial correlation coefficient and decoupling analysis by bins. The top three factors exerting the largest total effects on the GPP were soil temperature (Ts), canopy temperature (Tc) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD), among which Ts (0.75) and Tc (0.66) had the largest total effect on GPP under DM and BM, respectively. The independent effects of Ts, soil water content (SWC) and VPD on GPP were different under the two irrigation methods. SWC after excluding the influence of Ts showed a negative effect on GPP under DM (−1.24 g Cm−2d−1), while a positive effect under BM (0.02 g Cm−2d−1). By contrast, SWC after excluding the influence of VPD showed a positive effect on GPP under DM (0.59 g Cm−2d−1), while a negative effect under BM (−0.05 g Cm−2d−1). Interestingly, higher Ts, lower SWC and higher VPD had the potential to increase GPP under the two irrigation methods. We also found that the total effects of irrigation and VPD as well as the indirect effects of environmental factors on GPP should not be ignored. Our study will provide important reference for dealing with the effect of high temperature and drought stress on agro-ecosystem GPP and evaluating the response of vegetation to environmental factors.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system

Publiceringsår

2023-01-01

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Agricultural Water Management

Volym

275

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Agricultural Science

Nyckelord

  • Decoupling
  • Gross primary productivity
  • Soil temperature
  • Soil water content
  • Vapor pressure deficit

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0378-3774