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Title: Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales

Abstract

Abstract Gross ecosystem productivity ( GEP ) in tropical forests varies both with the environment and with biotic changes in photosynthetic infrastructure, but our understanding of the relative effects of these factors across timescales is limited. Here, we used a statistical model to partition the variability of seven years of eddy covariance‐derived GEP in a central Amazon evergreen forest into two main causes: variation in environmental drivers (solar radiation, diffuse light fraction, and vapor pressure deficit) that interact with model parameters that govern photosynthesis and biotic variation in canopy photosynthetic light‐use efficiency associated with changes in the parameters themselves. Our fitted model was able to explain most of the variability in GEP at hourly ( R = 0.77) to interannual ( R = 0.80) timescales. At hourly timescales, we found that 75% of observed GEP variability could be attributed to environmental variability. When aggregating GEP to the longer timescales (daily, monthly, and yearly), however, environmental variation explained progressively less GEP variability: At monthly timescales, it explained only 3%, much less than biotic variation in canopy photosynthetic light‐use efficiency, which accounted for 63%. These results challenge modeling approaches that assume GEP is primarily controlled by the environment at both short andmore » long timescales. Our approach distinguishing biotic from environmental variability can help to resolve debates about environmental limitations to tropical forest photosynthesis. For example, we found that biotically regulated canopy photosynthetic light‐use efficiency (associated with leaf phenology) increased with sunlight during dry seasons (consistent with light but not water limitation of canopy development) but that realized GEP was nonetheless lower relative to its potential efficiency during dry than wet seasons (consistent with water limitation of photosynthesis in given assemblages of leaves). This work highlights the importance of accounting for differential regulation of GEP at different timescales and of identifying the underlying feedbacks and adaptive mechanisms.« less

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 [1];  [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [9];  [10];  [11];  [12];  [13];  [7];  [14];  [7]
  1. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  2. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
  3. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  4. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); Univ. of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW (Australia)
  5. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  6. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
  7. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
  8. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  9. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States); North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
  10. Univ. of Western Para-UFOPA, Para (Brazil)
  11. Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Belem (Brasil)
  12. Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Santarem (Brasil)
  13. Univ. de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba (Brasil)
  14. Univ. of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW (Australia)
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Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1351750
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1401016
Report Number(s):
BNL-113771-2017-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 1354-1013; R&D Project: 21087; YN0100000
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC00112704; DE‐SC0008383
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Global Change Biology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; environmental limitation; leaf demography; leaf quality; leaf quantity; light-use efficiency; phenology; physiology; temperature sensitivity on productivity

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Wu, Jin, Guan, Kaiyu, Hayek, Matthew, Restrepo-Coupe, Natalia, Wiedemann, Kenia T., Xu, Xiangtao, Wehr, Richard, Christoffersen, Bradley O., Miao, Guofang, da Silva, Rodrigo, de Araujo, Alessandro C., Oliviera, Raimundo C., Camargo, Plinio B., Monson, Russell K., Huete, Alfredo R., and Saleska, Scott R. Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1111/gcb.13509.
Wu, Jin, Guan, Kaiyu, Hayek, Matthew, Restrepo-Coupe, Natalia, Wiedemann, Kenia T., Xu, Xiangtao, Wehr, Richard, Christoffersen, Bradley O., Miao, Guofang, da Silva, Rodrigo, de Araujo, Alessandro C., Oliviera, Raimundo C., Camargo, Plinio B., Monson, Russell K., Huete, Alfredo R., & Saleska, Scott R. Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13509
Wu, Jin, Guan, Kaiyu, Hayek, Matthew, Restrepo-Coupe, Natalia, Wiedemann, Kenia T., Xu, Xiangtao, Wehr, Richard, Christoffersen, Bradley O., Miao, Guofang, da Silva, Rodrigo, de Araujo, Alessandro C., Oliviera, Raimundo C., Camargo, Plinio B., Monson, Russell K., Huete, Alfredo R., and Saleska, Scott R. Mon . "Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13509. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1351750.
@article{osti_1351750,
title = {Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales},
author = {Wu, Jin and Guan, Kaiyu and Hayek, Matthew and Restrepo-Coupe, Natalia and Wiedemann, Kenia T. and Xu, Xiangtao and Wehr, Richard and Christoffersen, Bradley O. and Miao, Guofang and da Silva, Rodrigo and de Araujo, Alessandro C. and Oliviera, Raimundo C. and Camargo, Plinio B. and Monson, Russell K. and Huete, Alfredo R. and Saleska, Scott R.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Gross ecosystem productivity ( GEP ) in tropical forests varies both with the environment and with biotic changes in photosynthetic infrastructure, but our understanding of the relative effects of these factors across timescales is limited. Here, we used a statistical model to partition the variability of seven years of eddy covariance‐derived GEP in a central Amazon evergreen forest into two main causes: variation in environmental drivers (solar radiation, diffuse light fraction, and vapor pressure deficit) that interact with model parameters that govern photosynthesis and biotic variation in canopy photosynthetic light‐use efficiency associated with changes in the parameters themselves. Our fitted model was able to explain most of the variability in GEP at hourly ( R 2  = 0.77) to interannual ( R 2  = 0.80) timescales. At hourly timescales, we found that 75% of observed GEP variability could be attributed to environmental variability. When aggregating GEP to the longer timescales (daily, monthly, and yearly), however, environmental variation explained progressively less GEP variability: At monthly timescales, it explained only 3%, much less than biotic variation in canopy photosynthetic light‐use efficiency, which accounted for 63%. These results challenge modeling approaches that assume GEP is primarily controlled by the environment at both short and long timescales. Our approach distinguishing biotic from environmental variability can help to resolve debates about environmental limitations to tropical forest photosynthesis. For example, we found that biotically regulated canopy photosynthetic light‐use efficiency (associated with leaf phenology) increased with sunlight during dry seasons (consistent with light but not water limitation of canopy development) but that realized GEP was nonetheless lower relative to its potential efficiency during dry than wet seasons (consistent with water limitation of photosynthesis in given assemblages of leaves). This work highlights the importance of accounting for differential regulation of GEP at different timescales and of identifying the underlying feedbacks and adaptive mechanisms.},
doi = {10.1111/gcb.13509},
journal = {Global Change Biology},
number = 3,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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  • Lin, Shangrong; Li, Jing; Liu, Qinhuo
  • Remote Sensing, Vol. 10, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.3390/rs10091329

Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes
journal, March 2019