Assessing variability of optimum air temperature for photosynthesis across site-years, sites and biomes and their effects on photosynthesis estimation
Assessing variability of optimum air temperature for photosynthesis across site-years, sites and biomes and their effects on photosynthesis estimation
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DOI:
10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108277
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发表时间:
2021-03
影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Q. Chang;Xiangming Xiao;R. Doughty;Xiaocui Wu;Wenzhe Jiao;Yuanwei Qin
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作者:
Q. Chang;Xiangming Xiao;R. Doughty;Xiaocui Wu;Wenzhe Jiao;Yuanwei Qin
Gross primary productivity (GPP) of vegetation is affected by air temperature. Biogeochemical models use the optimum air temperature (T opt) parameter, which comes from biome-specific look-up tables (T opt− b− LT). Many studies have shown that plants have the capacity to adapt to changes in environmental conditions over time, which suggests that the static T opt− b− LT parameters in the biogeochemical models may poorly represent actual T opt and induce uncertainty in GPP estimates. Here, we estimated biome-specific, site-year-specific, and site-specific optimum air temperature using GPP data from eddy covariance (EC) flux tower sites (GPP EC)(T opt− b− EC, T opt− sy− EC, T opt− s− EC), the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) from MODIS images (T opt− b− EVI, T opt− sy− EVI, T opt− s− EVI), and mean daytime air temperature (T DT). We evaluated the consistency among the four T opt parameters (T opt− b, T opt− sy, T opt− s and T opt− b− LT), and assessed how they affect satellite-based GPP estimates. We find that T opt parameters from MODIS EVI agree well with those from GPP EC, which indicates that EVI can be used as a variable to estimate T opt at individual pixels over large spatial domains. T opt− b, T opt− sy, and T opt− s differed significantly from T opt− b− LT. GPP estimates using T opt− b and T opt− sy were more consistent with GPP EC than when using T opt− b− LT for all the land cover types. Our use of T opt− sy substantially improved 8-day and annual GPP estimates across biomess (from 1% to 34%), especially for cropland, grassland, and open shrubland. Our simple calculation shows that global GPP estimates differ by up to 10 Pg C/yr when using our suggested T opt− sy− EVI instead of using the static T opt− b− LT. Our new approach on estimating T opt has the potential to improve estimates of GPP from satellite-based models, which could lead to better understanding of carbon-climate interactions.