Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition

Rammig, Anja; Domingues, Tomas; Fuchslueger, Lucia; Goll, Daniel; Jiang, Mingkai; Haverd, Vanessa; Hofhansl, Florian; Holm, Jennifer; Kruijt, Bart; Medlyn, Belinda; Mercado Montoya, Lina; Norby, Richard J.; Pak, Bernard; Quesada, Carlos; Schaap, Peter J.; Wang, Ying-Ping; Yang, Xiaojuan; Zaehle, S; Zhu, Qing; Lapola, David M.; De Kauwe, Martin G.; Walker, Anthony P.; Fleischer, Katrin; Garcia, Sabrina; Grandis, Adriana; Leung, Felix

doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0404-9

Title: Amazon forest response to CO₂ fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition

Journal Article · 05 August 2019 · Nature Geoscience

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0404-9 · OSTI ID:1564155

Rammig, Anja ^[1]; Domingues, Tomas ^[2]; Fuchslueger, Lucia ^[3]; Goll, Daniel ^[4]; Jiang, Mingkai ^[5]; Haverd, Vanessa ^[6]; Hofhansl, Florian ^[7]; Holm, Jennifer ^[8]; Kruijt, Bart ^[9]; Medlyn, Belinda ^[5]; Mercado Montoya, Lina ^[10];

^[11]; Pak, Bernard ^[12]; Quesada, Carlos ^[13]; Schaap, Peter J. ^[14]; Wang, Ying-Ping ^[15];

^[11]; Zaehle, S ^[16]; Zhu, Qing ^[17]; Lapola, David M. ^[18] more »

Technische Univ. of Munich (Germany). Land Surface–Atmosphere Interactions
Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil). Dept. of Biology
National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Manaus (Brazil); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Antwerp, Antwerp (Belgium). Dept. of Biology
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Saint-Aubin (France); Universität Augsburg, Augsburg (Germany). Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie mit Schwerpunkt Klimaforschung
Western Sydney Univ., Sydney, New South Wales (Australia). Hawkesbury Inst. for the Environment
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra, (Australia)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg (Austria)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
The Netherlands Alterra Wageningen, Wageningen (The Netherlands)
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford (United Kingdom); Univ. of Exeter, Exeter (United Kingdom). College of Life and Environmental Sciences
ORNL
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, Canberra, Australia
National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA)
Wageningen University, Netherlands
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil
Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia). Climate Change Research Centre; ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Sydney, New South Wales (Australia)
ORNL; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Inst.
National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Manaus (Brazil)
Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil). Dept. of Botany
Univ. of Exeter, Exeter (United Kingdom). College of Life and Environmental Sciences; Univ. of Hong Kong (China). Inst. of Environment, Energy and Sustainability

Global terrestrial models currently predict that the Amazon rainforest will continue to act as a carbon sink in the future, primarily owing to the rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentration. Soil phosphorus impoverishment in parts of the Amazon basin largely controls its functioning, but the role of phosphorus availability has not been considered in global model ensembles—for example, during the Fifth Climate Model Intercomparison Project. Here we simulate the planned free-air CO₂ enrichment experiment AmazonFACE with an ensemble of 14 terrestrial ecosystem models. We show that phosphorus availability reduces the projected CO₂-induced biomass carbon growth by about 50% to 79 ± 63 g C m^-2 yr^-1 over 15 years compared to estimates from carbon and carbon–nitrogen models. Our results suggest that the resilience of the region to climate change may be much less than previously assumed. Variation in the biomass carbon response among the phosphorus-enabled models is considerable, ranging from 5 to 140 g C m^-2 yr^-1, owing to the contrasting plant phosphorus use and acquisition strategies considered among the models. The Amazon forest response thus depends on the interactions and relative contributions of the phosphorus acquisition and use strategies across individuals, and to what extent these processes can be upregulated under elevated CO₂.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

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OSTI ID:: 1564155

Journal Information:: Nature Geoscience, Vol. 12, Issue 9; ISSN 1752-0894

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