Spatio-temporal Convergence of Maximum Daily Light-Use Efficiency Based on Radiation Absorption by Canopy Chlorophyll

Zhang, Yao; Xiao, Xiangming; Wolf, Sebastian; Wu, Jin; Wu, Xiaocui; Gioli, Beniamino; Wohlfahrt, Georg; Cescatti, Alessandro; Van der Tol, Christian; Zhou, Sha; Gough, Christopher; Gentine, Pierre; Zhang, Yongguang; Steinbrecher, Rainer; Ardo, Jonas

doi:10.1029/2017GL076354

Spatio-temporal Convergence of Maximum Daily Light-Use Efficiency Based on Radiation Absorption by Canopy Chlorophyll

Journal Article · Sun Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2017GL076354· OSTI ID:1431443

Zhang, Yao ^[1]; Xiao, Xiangming ^[2]; Wolf, Sebastian ^[3]; ^[4]; Wu, Xiaocui ^[5]; Gioli, Beniamino ^[6]; Wohlfahrt, Georg ^[7]; Cescatti, Alessandro ^[8]; Van der Tol, Christian ^[9]; Zhou, Sha ^[10]; Gough, Christopher ^[11]; Gentine, Pierre ^[12]; Zhang, Yongguang ^[13]; Steinbrecher, Rainer ^[14]; Ardo, Jonas ^[15]

Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Dept. of Microbiology and Plant Biology and Center for Spatial Analysis; Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Dept. of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Dept. of Microbiology and Plant Biology and Center for Spatial Analysis; Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China). Ministry of Education Key Lab. of Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering and Inst. of Biodiversity Science
ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Dept. of Environmental Systems Science
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Biological, Environmental & Climate Sciences Dept.
Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Dept. of Microbiology and Plant Biology and Center for Spatial Analysis
Inst. of Biometeorology of the National Research Council (IBIMET-CNR), Firenze (Italy)
Univ. Innsbruck (Austria). Inst. of Ecology
European Commission (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Directorate for Sustainable Resources, Ispra (Italy)
Univ. of Twente (Netherlands). Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) and Dept. of Water Resources
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). State Key Lab. of Hydroscience and Engineering and Dept. of Hydraulic Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA (United States). Dept. of Biology
Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Dept. of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Nanjing Univ. (China). Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application and International Inst. for Earth System Sciences
Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT) (Germany). Dept. of Atmospheric Environmental Research and Inst. for Meteorology and Climate Research
Lund Univ. (Sweden). Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science

Light-use efficiency (LUE), which quantifies the plants’ efficiency in utilizing solar radiation for photosynthetic carbon fixation, is an important factor for gross primary production (GPP) estimation. Here we use satellite-based solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) as a proxy for photosynthetically active radiation absorbed by chlorophyll (APAR_chl) and derive an estimation of the fraction of APAR_chl (fPAR_chl) from four remotely-sensed vegetation indicators. By comparing maximum LUE estimated at different scales from 127 eddy flux sites, we found that the maximum daily LUE based on PAR absorption by canopy chlorophyll (ε$$chl\atop{max}$$), unlike other expressions of LUE, tends to converge across biome types. The photosynthetic seasonality in tropical forests can also be tracked by the change of fPAR_chl, suggesting the corresponding (ε$$chl\atop{max}$$}$$) to have less seasonal variation. Finally, this spatio-temporal convergence of LUE derived from fPAR_chl can be used to build simple but robust GPP models and to better constrain process-based models.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Airbus Defence and Space; European Space Agency (ESA); FLUXNET; GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences; National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC); National Science Foundation (NSF); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC); USDA National Inst. for Food and Agriculture (NIFA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1431443

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1563952

Report Number(s):: BNL--203445-2018-JAAM

Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 45; ISSN 0094-8276

Publisher:: American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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