Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America
Abstract
Satellite remote sensing provides unmatched spatiotemporal information on vegetation gross primary productivity (GPP). Yet understanding of the relationship between GPP and remote sensing observations and how it changes with factors such as scale, biophysical constraint, and vegetation type remains limited. This knowledge gap is especially apparent for dryland ecosystems, which have characteristic high spatiotemporal variability and are under–represented by long–term field measurements. Here we utilize an eddy covariance (EC) data synthesis for southwestern North America in an assessment of how accurately satellite–derived vegetation proxies capture seasonal to interannual GPP dynamics across dryland gradients. We evaluate the enhanced vegetation index, solar–induced fluorescence (SIF), and the photochemical reflectivity index. We find evidence that SIF is more accurately capturing seasonal GPP dynamics particularly for evergreen–dominated EC sites and more accurately estimating the full magnitude of interannual GPP dynamics for all dryland EC sites. Furthermore, these results suggest that incorporation of SIF could significantly improve satellite–based GPP estimates.
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- Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
- USDA Agricultural Research Service, Tucson, AZ (United States)
- Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT (United States)
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1537304
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0016011
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 45; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; geology; gross primary productivity; dryland vegetation dynamics; chlorophyll fluorescence; photochemical reflectivity index; enhanced vegetation index; satellite remote sensing
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Smith, W. K., Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Moore, D. J. P., He, M., Kimball, J. S., Yan, D., Hudson, A., Barnes, M. L., MacBean, N., Fox, A. M., and Litvak, M. E. Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/2017gl075922.
Smith, W. K., Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Moore, D. J. P., He, M., Kimball, J. S., Yan, D., Hudson, A., Barnes, M. L., MacBean, N., Fox, A. M., & Litvak, M. E. Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl075922
Smith, W. K., Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Moore, D. J. P., He, M., Kimball, J. S., Yan, D., Hudson, A., Barnes, M. L., MacBean, N., Fox, A. M., and Litvak, M. E. Thu .
"Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl075922. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1537304.
@article{osti_1537304,
title = {Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America},
author = {Smith, W. K. and Biederman, J. A. and Scott, R. L. and Moore, D. J. P. and He, M. and Kimball, J. S. and Yan, D. and Hudson, A. and Barnes, M. L. and MacBean, N. and Fox, A. M. and Litvak, M. E.},
abstractNote = {Satellite remote sensing provides unmatched spatiotemporal information on vegetation gross primary productivity (GPP). Yet understanding of the relationship between GPP and remote sensing observations and how it changes with factors such as scale, biophysical constraint, and vegetation type remains limited. This knowledge gap is especially apparent for dryland ecosystems, which have characteristic high spatiotemporal variability and are under–represented by long–term field measurements. Here we utilize an eddy covariance (EC) data synthesis for southwestern North America in an assessment of how accurately satellite–derived vegetation proxies capture seasonal to interannual GPP dynamics across dryland gradients. We evaluate the enhanced vegetation index, solar–induced fluorescence (SIF), and the photochemical reflectivity index. We find evidence that SIF is more accurately capturing seasonal GPP dynamics particularly for evergreen–dominated EC sites and more accurately estimating the full magnitude of interannual GPP dynamics for all dryland EC sites. Furthermore, these results suggest that incorporation of SIF could significantly improve satellite–based GPP estimates.},
doi = {10.1002/2017gl075922},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 2,
volume = 45,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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