Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 284-289

  Guan, Kaiyu ^a,b   Pan, Ming ^a   Li, Haibin ^c   Wolf, Adam ^d   Wu, Jin ^e   Medvigy, David ^d   Caylor, Kelly K ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^a   Wood, Eric F ^a   Malhi, Yadvinder ^f   Liang, Miaoling ^a   Kimball, John S ^g,h   Saleska, Scott R ^e   Berry, Joe ⁱ   Joiner, Joanna ^j   Lyapustin, Alexei I ^j  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rutgers University   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

ⁱ GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFOREST; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; THRESHOLD; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VULNERABILITY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 84926321039     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2382     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Huntingford, C. et al. Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change. Nature Geosci. 6, 268-273 (2013).
2. Restrepo-Coupe, N. et al.What drives the seasonality of photosynthesis across the Amazon basin?. A cross-site analysis of eddy flux tower measurements from the Brasil flux network. Agric. For. Meteorol. 182-183, 128-144 (2013).
3. Saleska, S., da Rocha, H., Kruijt, B. & Nobre, A. in Amazonia and Global Change (eds Keller, M., Bustamante, M., Gash, J. & Silva Dias, P.) 389-408 (American Geophysical Union, 2009).
4. Pan, Y. et al. A large and persistent carbon sink in the world's forests. Science 333, 988-993 (2011).
5. Malhi, Y. et al. Climate change, deforestation, and the fate of the Amazon. Science 319, 169-172 (2008).
6. Davidson, E. A. et al. The Amazon basin in transition. Nature 481, 321-328 (2012).
7. Huete, A. R. et al. Multiple site tower flux and remote sensing comparisons of tropical forest dynamics in Monsoon Asia. Agric. For. Meteorol. 148, 748-760 (2008).
8. Huete, A. R. et al. Amazon rainforests green-up with sunlight in dry season. Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L06405 (2006).
9. Da Rocha, H. R. et al. Patterns of water and heat flux across a biome gradient from tropical forest to savanna in Brazil. J. Geophys. Res. 114, G00B12 (2009).
10. Guan, K. et al. Seasonal coupling of canopy structure and function in African tropical forests and its environmental controls. Ecosphere 4, 1-21 (2013).
11. Huete, A. et al. Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices. Remote Sens. Environ. 83, 195-213 (2002).
12. Van Der Tol, C., Berry, J. A., Campbell, P. K. E. & Rascher, U. Models of fluorescence and photosynthesis for interpreting measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci. 119, 2312-2327 (2014).
13. Joiner, J. et al. Global monitoring of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence from moderate spectral resolution near-infrared satellite measurements: Methodology, simulations, and application to GOME-2. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 6, 2803-2823 (2013).
14. Bradley, A. V. et al. Relationships between phenology, radiation and precipitation in the Amazon region. Glob. Change Biol. 17, 2245-2260 (2011).
15. Saleska, S. R. et al. Carbon in Amazon forests: Unexpected seasonal fluxes and disturbance-induced losses. Science 302, 1554-1557 (2003).
16. Myneni, R. B. et al. Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 104, 4820-4823 (2007).
17. Hilker, T. et al. Vegetation dynamics and rainfall sensitivity of the Amazon. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 111, 16041-16046 (2014).
18. Morton, D. C. et al. Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season. Nature 506, 221-224 (2014).
19. Pokhrel, Y. N. et al. The role of groundwater in the Amazon water cycle: 3. Influence on terrestrial water storage and comparison with GRACE. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 118, 3233-3244 (2013).
20. Swenson, S. &Wahr, J. Post-processing removal of correlated errors in GRACE data. Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L08402 (2006).
21. Pan, M. et al. Multisource estimation of long-term terrestrial water budget for major global river basins. J. Clim. 25, 3191-3206 (2012).
22. Nepstad, D. et al. The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures. Nature 3, 666-669 (1994).
23. Nepstad, D. et al. Amazon drought and its implications for forest flammability and tree growth: A basin-wide analysis. Glob. Change Biol. 10, 704-717 (2004).
24. Enquist, B. J. & Enquist, C. A. F. Long-term change within a Neotropical forest: Assessing di-erential functional and floristic responses to disturbance and drought. Glob. Change Biol. 17, 1408-1424 (2011).
25. Murphy, P. & Lugo, A. Ecology of tropical dry forest. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 17, 67-88 (1986).
26. Zhou, L. et al.Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade. Nature 509, 86-90 (2014).
27. Phillips, O. L. et al. Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. Science 323, 1344-1347 (2009).
28. Brando, P. M. et al. Drought e-ects on litterfall, wood production and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: Results of a throughfall reduction experiment. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 363, 1839-1848 (2008).
29. Malhi, Y. et al. African rainforests: Past, present and future African rainforests: Past, present and future. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 368, 20120312 (2013).
30. Cox, P. M., Betts, R. A., Jones, C. D., Spall, S. A. & Totterdell, I. J. Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model. Nature 408, 184-187 (2000).