Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate

Huntingford, Chris; Atkin, Owen K.; Martinez-de la Torre, Alberto; Mercado, Lina M.; Heskel, Mary A.; Harper, Anna B.; Bloomfield, Keith J.; O’Sullivan, Odhran S.; Reich, Peter B.; Wythers, Kirk R.; Butler, Ethan E.; Chen, Ming; Griffin, Kevin L.; Meir, Patrick; Tjoelker, Mark G.; Turnbull, Matthew H.; Sitch, Stephen; Wiltshire, Andy; Malhi, Yadvinder

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01774-z

Title: Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate

Journal Article · Fri Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01774-z· OSTI ID:1499641

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Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire (United Kingdom)
Australian National Univ., Canberra, (Australia)
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire (United Kingdom); Univ. of Exeter, Exeter (United Kingdom)
Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA (United States)
Univ. of Exeter, Exeter (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Western Sydney Univ., Penrith (Australia)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
Australian National Univ., Canberra, (Australia); Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Western Sydney Univ., Penrith (Australia)
Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch (New Zealand)
Met Office, Exeter, Devon (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)

Land-atmosphere exchanges influence atmospheric CO₂. Emphasis has been on describing photosynthetic CO₂ uptake, but less on respiration losses. New global datasets describe upper canopy dark respiration (R_d) and temperature dependencies. This allows characterization of baseline R_d, instantaneous temperature responses and longer-term thermal acclimation effects. Here we show the global implications of these parameterisations with a global gridded land model. This model aggregates R_d to whole-plant respiration R_p, driven with meteorological forcings spanning uncertainty across climate change models. For preindustrial estimates, new baseline R_d increases R_p and especially in the tropics. Compared to new baseline, revised instantaneous response decreases R_p for mid-latitudes, while acclimation lowers this for the tropics with increases elsewhere. Under global warming, new R_d estimates amplify modelled respiration increases, although partially lowered by acclimation. Future measurements will refine how R_d aggregates to whole-plant respiration. With this being said, our analysis suggests R_p could be around 30% higher than existing estimates.

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