Impacts of land use change and elevated CO2 on the interannual variations and seasonal cycles of gross primary productivity in China

Jia, Binghao; Luo, Xin; Cai, Ximing; Jain, Atul; Huntzinger, Deborah N.; Xie, Zhenghui; Zeng, Ning; Mao, Jiafu; Shi, Xiaoying; Ito, Akihiko; Wei, Yaxing; Tian, Hanqin; Poulter, Benjamin; Hayes, Dan; Schaefer, Kevin

doi:10.5194/esd-11-235-2020

Title: Impacts of land use change and elevated CO₂ on the interannual variations and seasonal cycles of gross primary productivity in China

Journal Article · 09 March 2020 · Earth System Dynamics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-235-2020 · OSTI ID:1632063

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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). State Key Lab. of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG); Jinan Univ., Guangzhou, Guangdong (China); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). State Key Lab. of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). State Key Lab. of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Environmental Sciences Division, Climate Change Science Inst.
National Inst. for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba (Japan). Center for Global Environmental Research
Auburn Univ., AL (United States)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME (United States)
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Cooperative Inst.e for Research in Environmental Sciences, National Snow and Ice Data Center

Climate change, rising CO₂ concentration, and landuse and land cover change (LULCC) are primary driving forces for terrestrialgross primary productivity (GPP), but their impacts on the temporal changesin GPP are uncertain. In this study, the effects of the three main factorson the interannual variation (IAV) and seasonal cycle amplitude (SCA) of GPPin China were investigated using 12 terrestrial biosphere models from theMulti-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project. Thesimulated ensemble mean value of China's GPP between 1981 and 2010, drivenby common climate forcing, LULCC and CO₂ data, was found to be7.4±1.8 Pg C yr^-1. In general, climate was the dominant controlfactor of the annual trends, IAV and seasonality of China's GPP. Theoverall rising CO2 led to enhanced plant photosynthesis, thusincreasing annual mean and IAV of China's total GPP, especially innortheastern and southern China, where vegetation is dense. LULCC decreasedthe IAV of China's total GPP by ~7%, whereas rising CO₂ induced an increase of 8 %. Compared to climate change andelevated CO₂, LULCC showed less contributions to GPP's temporalvariation, and its impact acted locally, mainly in southwestern China.Furthermore, this study also examined subregional contributions to thetemporal changes in China's total GPP. Southern and southeastern Chinashowed higher contributions to China's annual GPP, whereas southwestern andcentral parts of China explained larger fractions of the IAV in China's GPP.

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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:: 1632063

Journal Information:: Earth System Dynamics (Online), Vol. 11, Issue 1; ISSN 2190-4987

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