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Title: CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

Abstract

Forests sequester large amounts of atmospheric carbon. However, considerable uncertainties remain regarding the fate of this carbon over both short and long timescales. Relevant data to address these uncertainties have been and are being collected at many sites around the world, but synthesis of these data is still sparse. To facilitate synthesis activities, we have assembled a comprehensive global database for forest ecosystems, which includes carbon budget variables (fluxes and stocks), ecosystem traits (e.g. leaf area index, age) as well as ancillary site information such as management regime, climate and soil characteristics. This can be used to: quantify global, regional to biome-specific carbon-budgets, to re-examine established relationships, test emerging hypotheses about ecosystem functioning (e.g. a constant NEP to GPP), and provide benchmarks for model evaluations. Our synthesis highlighted that globally, gross primary production of forests benefited from higher temperatures and precipitation whereas net primary production saturated beyond a threshold of 1500 mm precipitation or a mean annual temperature of 10 C. The global pattern in NEP was found insensitive to climate and appears to be mainly determined by non-climatic conditions such as successional stage, management, site history and site disturbance. At the biome level, only the carbon fluxes in temperatemore » humid evergreen and temperate humid deciduous forests were sufficiently robust. All other biomes still need further study to reduce uncertainties in their carbon balance. Carbon budgets of boreal semi-arid and tropical semi-arid forests would benefit most from additional data inputs. Closing the CO2-balances of specific biomes required the introduction of closure terms. These closure terms were substantial for all biomes and suggested that to better close carbon balances, more data are needed especially on respiratory processes, advection and on non-CO2 carbon fluxes.« less

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  1. University of Antwerp
  2. Second University of Naples
  3. Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
  4. University of Tuscia
  5. LSCE, Orme des Merisiers
  6. University of Edinburgh
  7. CNR-ISAFOM
  8. Faculte Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux
  9. Technische Universitat Dresden
  10. University College, Dublin
  11. INRA Kourou - UMR EcoFog
  12. Tulane University
  13. Pennsylvania State University
  14. University of Illinois
  15. Universitate Amsterdam
  16. INRA EEF
  17. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Upsalla, Sweden
  18. University of Minnesota
  19. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
  20. Center of Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh
  21. USDA Forest Service
  22. University of Helsinki
  23. Alterra
  24. Lund University, Sweden
  25. Finnish Meteorological institute
  26. Oregon State University
  27. Universita di Bologna
  28. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  29. Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
  30. Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
  31. University of California, Berkeley
  32. Bolzano, Agency for the Environment
  33. University of Oxford
  34. INRA EPHYSE
  35. University of New Hampshire
  36. CIRAD
  37. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
  38. CEAM, Valencia, Spain
  39. Joint Research Centre, Italy
  40. Riso National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
931957
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Global Change Biology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 1354-1013
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ADVECTION; BENCHMARKS; CARBON; CLIMATES; CLOSURES; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; MANAGEMENT; PRECIPITATION; PRODUCTION; SOILS; SYNTHESIS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION

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Luyssaert, S., Inglima, I., Jung, M., Reichstein, Markus, Papale, D., Piao, S., Schulze, E. -D., Wingate, L., Matteucci, G., Aubinet, M., Beer, C., Bernhofer, C., Black, K. G., Bonal, D., Chambers, J., Ciais, P., Davis, Ken J., Delucia, Evan H., Dolman, A. J., Don, A., Gielen, B., Grace, John, Granier, A., Grelle, A., Griffis, T., Grunwald, T., Guidolotti, G., Hanson, P. J., Harding, R., Hollinger, D., Kolari, P., Kruijt, B., Kutsch, W., Lagergren, F., Laurila, T., Law, B., Le Maire, G., Lindroth, A., Magnani, F., Marek, M., Mateus, J., Migliavacca, M., Mission, L., Montagnani, L., Moncrief, J., Moors, E., Munger, J. W., Nikinmaa, E., Loustau, D., Pita, G., Rebmann, C., Richardson, A. D., Roupsard, O., Saigusa, N., Sanz, M. J., Seufert, G., Sorensen, L., Tang, J., Valentini, R., Vesala, T., and Janssens, I. A. CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database. United States: N. p., 2007. Web. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01439.x.
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Luyssaert, S., Inglima, I., Jung, M., Reichstein, Markus, Papale, D., Piao, S., Schulze, E. -D., Wingate, L., Matteucci, G., Aubinet, M., Beer, C., Bernhofer, C., Black, K. G., Bonal, D., Chambers, J., Ciais, P., Davis, Ken J., Delucia, Evan H., Dolman, A. J., Don, A., Gielen, B., Grace, John, Granier, A., Grelle, A., Griffis, T., Grunwald, T., Guidolotti, G., Hanson, P. J., Harding, R., Hollinger, D., Kolari, P., Kruijt, B., Kutsch, W., Lagergren, F., Laurila, T., Law, B., Le Maire, G., Lindroth, A., Magnani, F., Marek, M., Mateus, J., Migliavacca, M., Mission, L., Montagnani, L., Moncrief, J., Moors, E., Munger, J. W., Nikinmaa, E., Loustau, D., Pita, G., Rebmann, C., Richardson, A. D., Roupsard, O., Saigusa, N., Sanz, M. J., Seufert, G., Sorensen, L., Tang, J., Valentini, R., Vesala, T., & Janssens, I. A. CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01439.x
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Luyssaert, S., Inglima, I., Jung, M., Reichstein, Markus, Papale, D., Piao, S., Schulze, E. -D., Wingate, L., Matteucci, G., Aubinet, M., Beer, C., Bernhofer, C., Black, K. G., Bonal, D., Chambers, J., Ciais, P., Davis, Ken J., Delucia, Evan H., Dolman, A. J., Don, A., Gielen, B., Grace, John, Granier, A., Grelle, A., Griffis, T., Grunwald, T., Guidolotti, G., Hanson, P. J., Harding, R., Hollinger, D., Kolari, P., Kruijt, B., Kutsch, W., Lagergren, F., Laurila, T., Law, B., Le Maire, G., Lindroth, A., Magnani, F., Marek, M., Mateus, J., Migliavacca, M., Mission, L., Montagnani, L., Moncrief, J., Moors, E., Munger, J. W., Nikinmaa, E., Loustau, D., Pita, G., Rebmann, C., Richardson, A. D., Roupsard, O., Saigusa, N., Sanz, M. J., Seufert, G., Sorensen, L., Tang, J., Valentini, R., Vesala, T., and Janssens, I. A. 2007. "CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01439.x.
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@article{osti_931957,
title = {CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database},
author = {Luyssaert, S. and Inglima, I. and Jung, M. and Reichstein, Markus and Papale, D. and Piao, S. and Schulze, E. -D. and Wingate, L. and Matteucci, G. and Aubinet, M. and Beer, C. and Bernhofer, C. and Black, K. G. and Bonal, D. and Chambers, J. and Ciais, P. and Davis, Ken J. and Delucia, Evan H. and Dolman, A. J. and Don, A. and Gielen, B. and Grace, John and Granier, A. and Grelle, A. and Griffis, T. and Grunwald, T. and Guidolotti, G. and Hanson, P. J. and Harding, R. and Hollinger, D. and Kolari, P. and Kruijt, B. and Kutsch, W. and Lagergren, F. and Laurila, T. and Law, B. and Le Maire, G. and Lindroth, A. and Magnani, F. and Marek, M. and Mateus, J. and Migliavacca, M. and Mission, L. and Montagnani, L. and Moncrief, J. and Moors, E. and Munger, J. W. and Nikinmaa, E. and Loustau, D. and Pita, G. and Rebmann, C. and Richardson, A. D. and Roupsard, O. and Saigusa, N. and Sanz, M. J. and Seufert, G. and Sorensen, L. and Tang, J. and Valentini, R. and Vesala, T. and Janssens, I. A.},
abstractNote = {Forests sequester large amounts of atmospheric carbon. However, considerable uncertainties remain regarding the fate of this carbon over both short and long timescales. Relevant data to address these uncertainties have been and are being collected at many sites around the world, but synthesis of these data is still sparse. To facilitate synthesis activities, we have assembled a comprehensive global database for forest ecosystems, which includes carbon budget variables (fluxes and stocks), ecosystem traits (e.g. leaf area index, age) as well as ancillary site information such as management regime, climate and soil characteristics. This can be used to: quantify global, regional to biome-specific carbon-budgets, to re-examine established relationships, test emerging hypotheses about ecosystem functioning (e.g. a constant NEP to GPP), and provide benchmarks for model evaluations. Our synthesis highlighted that globally, gross primary production of forests benefited from higher temperatures and precipitation whereas net primary production saturated beyond a threshold of 1500 mm precipitation or a mean annual temperature of 10 C. The global pattern in NEP was found insensitive to climate and appears to be mainly determined by non-climatic conditions such as successional stage, management, site history and site disturbance. At the biome level, only the carbon fluxes in temperate humid evergreen and temperate humid deciduous forests were sufficiently robust. All other biomes still need further study to reduce uncertainties in their carbon balance. Carbon budgets of boreal semi-arid and tropical semi-arid forests would benefit most from additional data inputs. Closing the CO2-balances of specific biomes required the introduction of closure terms. These closure terms were substantial for all biomes and suggested that to better close carbon balances, more data are needed especially on respiratory processes, advection and on non-CO2 carbon fluxes.},
doi = {10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01439.x},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/931957}, journal = {Global Change Biology},
issn = {1354-1013},
number = ,
volume = 13,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2007},
month = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2007}
}
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