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Title: Carbon dynamics of mature and regrowth tropical forests derived from a pantropical database ( T rop F or C ‐db)

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Abstract Tropical forests play a critical role in the global carbon (C) cycle, storing ~45% of terrestrial C and constituting the largest component of the terrestrial C sink. Despite their central importance to the global C cycle, their ecosystem‐level C cycles are not as well‐characterized as those of extra‐tropical forests, and knowledge gaps hamper efforts to quantify C budgets across the tropics and to model tropical forest‐climate interactions. To advance understanding of C dynamics of pantropical forests, we compiled a new database, the Tropical Forest C database (TropForC‐db), which contains data on ground‐based measurements of ecosystem‐level C stocks and annual fluxes along with disturbance history. This database currently contains 3568 records from 845 plots in 178 geographically distinct areas, making it the largest and most comprehensive database of its type. Using TropForC‐db, we characterized C stocks and fluxes for young, intermediate‐aged, and mature forests. Relative to existing C budgets of extra‐tropical forests, mature tropical broadleaf evergreen forests had substantially higher gross primary productivity ( GPP ) and ecosystem respiration (R eco ), their autotropic respiration (R a ) consumed a larger proportion (~67%) of GPP , and their woody stem growth ( ANPP stem ) represented a smaller proportion ofmore » net primary productivity ( NPP , ~32%) or GPP (~9%). In regrowth stands, aboveground biomass increased rapidly during the first 20 years following stand‐clearing disturbance, with slower accumulation following agriculture and in deciduous forests, and continued to accumulate at a slower pace in forests aged 20–100 years. Most other C stocks likewise increased with stand age, while potential to describe age trends in C fluxes was generally data‐limited. We expect that TropForC‐db will prove useful for model evaluation and for quantifying the contribution of forests to the global C cycle. The database version associated with this publication is archived in Dryad ( DOI : 10.5061/dryad.t516f ) and a dynamic version is maintained at https://github.com/forc-db .« less

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  1. Conservation Ecology Center Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute National Zoological Park 1500 Remount Rd. Front Royal VA 22630 USA, Center for Tropical Forest Science‐Forest Global Earth Observatory Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Apartado 0843‐03092 Panamá Republic of Panamá
  2. Conservation Ecology Center Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute National Zoological Park 1500 Remount Rd. Front Royal VA 22630 USA
  3. Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois 1206 W Gregory Dr Urbana IL 61801 USA
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Journal Name:
Global Change Biology
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Journal Name: Global Change Biology Journal Volume: 22 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1354-1013
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Wiley-Blackwell
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United Kingdom
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English

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Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J., Wang, Maria M. H., McGarvey, Jennifer C., and LeBauer, David S. Carbon dynamics of mature and regrowth tropical forests derived from a pantropical database ( T rop F or C ‐db). United Kingdom: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1111/gcb.13226.
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Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J., Wang, Maria M. H., McGarvey, Jennifer C., & LeBauer, David S. Carbon dynamics of mature and regrowth tropical forests derived from a pantropical database ( T rop F or C ‐db). United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13226
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Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J., Wang, Maria M. H., McGarvey, Jennifer C., and LeBauer, David S. Tue . "Carbon dynamics of mature and regrowth tropical forests derived from a pantropical database ( T rop F or C ‐db)". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13226.
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@article{osti_1400746,
title = {Carbon dynamics of mature and regrowth tropical forests derived from a pantropical database ( T rop F or C ‐db)},
author = {Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J. and Wang, Maria M. H. and McGarvey, Jennifer C. and LeBauer, David S.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Tropical forests play a critical role in the global carbon (C) cycle, storing ~45% of terrestrial C and constituting the largest component of the terrestrial C sink. Despite their central importance to the global C cycle, their ecosystem‐level C cycles are not as well‐characterized as those of extra‐tropical forests, and knowledge gaps hamper efforts to quantify C budgets across the tropics and to model tropical forest‐climate interactions. To advance understanding of C dynamics of pantropical forests, we compiled a new database, the Tropical Forest C database (TropForC‐db), which contains data on ground‐based measurements of ecosystem‐level C stocks and annual fluxes along with disturbance history. This database currently contains 3568 records from 845 plots in 178 geographically distinct areas, making it the largest and most comprehensive database of its type. Using TropForC‐db, we characterized C stocks and fluxes for young, intermediate‐aged, and mature forests. Relative to existing C budgets of extra‐tropical forests, mature tropical broadleaf evergreen forests had substantially higher gross primary productivity ( GPP ) and ecosystem respiration (R eco ), their autotropic respiration (R a ) consumed a larger proportion (~67%) of GPP , and their woody stem growth ( ANPP stem ) represented a smaller proportion of net primary productivity ( NPP , ~32%) or GPP (~9%). In regrowth stands, aboveground biomass increased rapidly during the first 20 years following stand‐clearing disturbance, with slower accumulation following agriculture and in deciduous forests, and continued to accumulate at a slower pace in forests aged 20–100 years. Most other C stocks likewise increased with stand age, while potential to describe age trends in C fluxes was generally data‐limited. We expect that TropForC‐db will prove useful for model evaluation and for quantifying the contribution of forests to the global C cycle. The database version associated with this publication is archived in Dryad ( DOI : 10.5061/dryad.t516f ) and a dynamic version is maintained at https://github.com/forc-db .},
doi = {10.1111/gcb.13226},
journal = {Global Change Biology},
number = 5,
volume = 22,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Tue Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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