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Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence that correlates with canopy photosynthesis on diurnal and seasonal scales in a temperate deciduous forest

Journal Article · · Geophysical Research Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063201· OSTI ID:1454932
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  1. Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States). Department of Earth, Environment and Planetary Sciences; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (United States). The Ecosystems Center; Brown University
  2. Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States). Department of Earth, Environment and Planetary Sciences; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (United States). The Ecosystems Center
  3. Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States). Department of Earth, Environment and Planetary Sciences
  4. Universit`a degli Studi Milano‐Bicocca, Milan (Italy). Remote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, DISAT
  5. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  6. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  7. Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA (United States). Department of Global Ecology
  8. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Previous studies have suggested that solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is correlated with Gross Primary Production (GPP). However, it remains unclear to what extent this relationship is due to absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (APAR) and/or light use efficiency (LUE). Here in this work, we present the first time series of near-surface measurement of canopy-scale SIF at 760 nm in temperate deciduous forests. SIF correlated with GPP estimated with eddy covariance at diurnal and seasonal scales (r2 = 0.82 and 0.73, respectively), as well as with APAR diurnally and seasonally (r2 = 0.90 and 0.80, respectively). SIF/APAR is significantly positively correlated with LUE and is higher during cloudy days than sunny days. Weekly tower-based SIF agreed with SIF from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (r2 = 0.82). Finally, our results provide ground-based evidence that SIF is directly related to both APAR and LUE and thus GPP, and confirm that satellite SIF can be used as a proxy for GPP.
Research Organization:
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0006951
OSTI ID:
1454932
Journal Information:
Geophysical Research Letters, Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 42; ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher:
American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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