Carbon and water cycles in tropical papyrus wetlands

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 489-498

  Saunders, M J ^a   Jones, M B ^a   Kansiime, F ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Africa; C4 photosynthesis; Carbon dioxide; ECOTOOLS; Eddy covariance; Evapotranspiration; Papyrus; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER VAPOR; WETLAND;

AFRICA; BUSOGA; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; JINJA; LAKE VICTORIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

CYPERUS; CYPERUS PAPYRUS;

EID: 37349061040     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-007-9051-9     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Aubinet M, Grelle A, Ibrom A, Rannil U, Moncrieff J, Foken T, Kowalski A, Martin P, Berbigier P, Bernhofer C, Clement R, Elbers J, Granier A, Grunwald T, Morgenstern K, Pilegaard K, Rebmann K, Snijders W, Valentini R, Vesala T (2000) Estimates of the annual net carbon and water exchange of forests: The EUROFLUX Methodology. Adv Ecol Res 30:113-175
2. Busch J (2000) Canopy transpiration rates in eutrophic wetlands dominated by sedges (Carex spp.) differ in a species specific way. Phy Chem Earth 25:605-610
3. Dolman A, Moors E, Grunwald T, Berbigier P, Bernhofer C (2003) Factors controlling forest atmosphere exchange of water, energy and carbon. In: Valentini R (ed) Fluxes of carbon, water and energy of European forests. Springer, London
4. Falge E, Baldocchi D, Olson R, Anthoni P, Aubinet M, Bernhofer C, Burba G, Ceulemans R, Clement R, Dolman H, Grainier A, Gross P, Grunwald T, Hollinger D, Jensen N-O, Katul G, Keronen P, Kowalski A, Lai C, Law B, Meyers T, Moncrieff J, Moors E, Munger J, Pilegaard K, Rannik U, Rebmann C, Suyker A, Tenhunen J, Tu K, Verma S, Vesala T, Wilson K, Wofsy S (2001a) Gap filling strategies for defensible annual sums of net ecosystem exchange. Agric Forest Meteorol 107:43-69
5. Falge E, Baldocchi D, Olson R, Anthoni P, Aubinet M, Bernhofer C, Burba G, Ceulemans R, Clement R, Dolman H, Grainier A, Gross P, Grunwald T, Hollinger D, Jensen N-O, Katul G, Keronen P, Kowalski A, Lai C, Law B, Meyers T, Moncrieff J, Moors E, Munger J, Pilegaard K, Rannik U, Rebmann C, Suyker A, Tenhunen J, Tu K, Verma S, Vesala T, Wilson K, Wofsy S (2001b) Gap filling strategies for long term energy flux data sets. Agric Forest Meteorol 107:71-77
6. Gaudet J (1979) Seasonal changes in nutrients in a tropical swamp: North swamp, Lake Naivasha, Kenya. J Ecol 67:953-981
7. Grace J (1981) Some effects of wind on plants. In: Grace J, Ford E, Jarvis P (eds) Plants and their atmospheric environment. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford
8. Grace J, Malhi Y, Lloyd J, McIntyre J, Miranda A, Meir P, Miranda H (1996) The use of eddy covariance to infer the net carbon dioxide uptake of Brazilian rain forest. Global Change Biol 2:209-217
9. Hughes R, Hughes J (1992) A directory of African wetlands. IUCN, Gland/UNEP, Nairobi/WCMW, Cambridge
10. Humphries S (2003) Will mechanistically rich models provide us with new insights into the response of plant production to climate change? Development and experiments with WIMOVAC. Ph.D thesis, University of Essex, England
11. Idso S, Anderson M (1988) A comparison of two recent studies of transpirational water loss from emergent aquatic macrophytes. Aqua Bot 31:191-195
12. 4 sedge Cyperus papyrus L. on carbon and water fluxes in an African wetland. Hydrobiologia 488:107-113
13. Jones M, Muthuri F (1984) The diurnal course of water potential, stomatal conductance and transpiration in a papyrus (Cyperus papyrus L.) canopy. Oecologia 63:252-255
14. Jones M, Muthuri F (1985) The canopy structure and microclimate of papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) swamps. J Ecol 73:481-491
15. Jones M, Muthuri F (1997) Standing biomass and carbon distribution in a papyrus (Cyperus papyrus L.) swamp on Lake Naivasha, Kenya. J Tropic Ecol 13:347-356
16. Kansiime F, Nalubega M (1999) Wastewater treatment by a natural wetland: The Nakivubo Swamp, Uganda. PhD Thesis, Balkema, Rotterdam
17. 2 with a temperate deciduous forest in southern Ontario, Canada. J Geophy Res 104:15975-15984
18. Linacre E (1976) Swamps. In: Monteith J (ed) Vegetation and the atmosphere. Academic Press, London
19. Linacre E (1993) Data-sparse estimation of lake evaporation, using a simple Penman equarion. Agric Forest Meteorol 64(3-4):237-256
20. Linacre E, Hicks B, Sainty G, Grauze G (1970) The evaporation from a swamp. Agric Meteorol 7:375-386
21. Maclean, I., Hassall, M., Boar, R., and Lake, I. Effects of disturbance and habitat loss on papyrus-dwelling passerines. Biological Conservation (in press)
22. Moncrieff J, Massheder J, de Bruin H, Elbers J, Friborg T, Heusinkveld B, Kabat P, Scott S, Soegaard H, Verhoef A (1997) A system to measure surface fluxes of momentum, sensible heat, water vapour and carbon dioxide. J Hydrol 188-189:589-611
23. 2 Flux measurements. Oecologia 125:400-411
24. Muthuri F (1985) The primary production of papyrus in relation to environmental variables. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Nairobi, Kenya
25. Muthuri F, Jones M, Imbamba S (1989) Primary productivity of papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) in a tropical swamp; Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Biomass 18:1-14
26. 4 grass Echinochloa polystachya on the Amazon floodplain. Ecology 72:1456-1463
27. Rijks D (1969) Evaporation from a papyrus swamp. Quart J R Met Soc 95:643-649
28. Salisbury F, Ross C (1992) Plant physiology. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California
29. Scheupp P, Leclerc M, MacPherson J, Desjardins R (1990) Footprint prediction of scalar fluxes from analytical solutions of the diffusion equation. Boundary Layer Meteorol 26:81-93
30. Sumner D, Jacobs J (2005) Utility of Penman-Monteith, Priestly-Taylor, reference evapotranspiration, and pan evaporation methods to estimate pasture evapotranspiration. J Hydrol 308:81-104
31. Thompson K, Shewry P, Woolhouse H (1979) Papyrus swamp development in the Upemba Basin, Zaire: studies of population structure in Cyperus papyrus stands. Bot J Linnean Soc 78:299-316
32. Valentini R (2003) Fluxes of carbon, water and energy of European forests. Springer, London
33. Wilson K, Baldocchi D (2000) Estimating annual net ecosystem exchange of carbon over five years at a deciduous forest in the southern United States. Agric Forest Meteorol 100:1-18