Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter‐annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

Xu, Xiangtao; Medvigy, David; Powers, Jennifer S.; Becknell, Justin M.; Guan, Kaiyu

doi:10.1111/nph.14009

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter‐annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

Journal Article · Wed May 18 04:00:00 EDT 2016 · New Phytologist

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14009· OSTI ID:1401212

^[1]; Medvigy, David ^[1]; Powers, Jennifer S. ^[2]; Becknell, Justin M. ^[3]; Guan, Kaiyu ^[4]

Department of Geosciences Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA
Departments of Ecology Evolution &, Behavior and Plant Biology University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minneapolis MN 55108 USA
Department of Ecology &, Evolutionary Biology Brown University Providence RI 02912 USA
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Urbana IL 61801 USA

Summary

We assessed whether diversity in plant hydraulic traits can explain the observed diversity in plant responses to water stress in seasonally dry tropical forests ( SDTF s).

The Ecosystem Demography model 2 ( ED 2) was updated with a trait‐driven mechanistic plant hydraulic module, as well as novel drought‐phenology and plant water stress schemes. Four plant functional types were parameterized on the basis of meta‐analysis of plant hydraulic traits. Simulations from both the original and the updated ED 2 were evaluated against 5 yr of field data from a Costa Rican SDTF site and remote‐sensing data over Central America.

The updated model generated realistic plant hydraulic dynamics, such as leaf water potential and stem sap flow. Compared with the original ED 2, predictions from our novel trait‐driven model matched better with observed growth, phenology and their variations among functional groups. Most notably, the original ED 2 produced unrealistically small leaf area index ( LAI ) and underestimated cumulative leaf litter. Both of these biases were corrected by the updated model. The updated model was also better able to simulate spatial patterns of LAI dynamics in Central America.

Plant hydraulic traits are intercorrelated in SDTF s. Mechanistic incorporation of plant hydraulic traits is necessary for the simulation of spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation dynamics in SDTF s in vegetation models.

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