scholarly journals Sensitivity of spruce/moss boreal forest net ecosystem productivity to seasonal anomalies in weather

1997 ◽  
Vol 102 (D24) ◽  
pp. 29053-29064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Frolking
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Net Ecosystem Productivity ◽  
Ecosystem Productivity

The relative importance of environmental factors on the interannual variability of carbon fluxes in the boreal forest

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariam El-Amine ◽  
Alexandre Roy ◽  
Pierre Legendre ◽  
Oliver Sonnentag
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽  
Carbon Sink ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Carbon Uptake ◽  
Net Ecosystem Productivity ◽  
Ecosystem Productivity ◽  
Environmental Controls

<p>As climate change will cause a more pronounced rise of air temperature in northern high latitudes than in other parts of the world, it is expected that the strength of the boreal forest carbon sink will be altered. To better understand and quantify these changes, we studied the influence of different environmental controls (e.g., air and soil temperatures, soil water content, photosynthetically active radiation, normalized difference vegetation index) on the timing of the start and end of the boreal forest growing season and the net carbon uptake period in Canada. The influence of these factors on the growing season carbon exchanges between the atmosphere and the boreal forest were also evaluated. There is a need to improve the understanding of the role of the length of the growing season and the net carbon uptake period on the strength of the boreal forest carbon sink, as an extension of these periods might not necessarily result in a stronger carbon sink if other environmental factors are not optimal for carbon sequestration or enhance respiration.</p><p>Here, we used 31 site-years of observation over three Canadian boreal forest stands: Eastern, Northern and Southern Old Black Spruce in Québec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, respectively. Redundancy analyses were used to highlight the environmental controls that correlate the most with the annual net ecosystem productivity and the start and end of the growing season and the net carbon uptake period. Preliminary results show that the timing at which the air temperature becomes positive correlates the most strongly with the start of the net carbon uptake period (r = 0.70, p < 0.001) and the start of the growing season (r = 0.55, p < 0.01). Although the increase of the normalized difference vegetation index also correlates with the start of these periods, a thorough examination of this result shows that the latter happens well before the former. No dependency between any environmental control and the end of the net carbon uptake period was identified. Also, the annual net ecosystem productivity is highly correlated with the length of the net carbon uptake period (r = 0.54, p < 0.01). Other environmental controls such as annual precipitations, the mean annual soil temperature or the maximum yearly normalized difference vegetation index have a smaller impact on the annual net ecosystem productivity. By extending the dataset to include forest stands that represent a wider climate and permafrost variability, we will examine the generalizability of these results.</p>

scholarly journals Response of Net Ecosystem Productivity of Three Boreal Forest Stands to Drought

Ecosystems ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1039-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Kljun ◽  
T. A. Black ◽  
T. J. Griffis ◽  
A. G. Barr ◽  
D. Gaumont-Guay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Net Ecosystem Productivity ◽  
Ecosystem Productivity ◽  
Forest Stands

scholarly journals Response of Net Ecosystem Productivity of Three Boreal Forest Stands to Drought

Ecosystems ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1128-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Kljun ◽  
T. A. Black ◽  
T. J. Griffis ◽  
A. G. Barr ◽  
D. Gaumont-Guay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Net Ecosystem Productivity ◽  
Ecosystem Productivity ◽  
Forest Stands

scholarly journals Interannual variability of terrestrial net ecosystem productivity over China: regional contributions and climate attribution

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 014003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Zhang ◽  
Xiaoli Ren ◽  
Junbang Wang ◽  
Honglin He ◽  
Shaoqiang Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interannual Variability ◽  
Net Ecosystem Productivity ◽  
Ecosystem Productivity

scholarly journals Growing Season Length as a Key Factor of Cumulative Net Ecosystem Exchange Over the Pine Forest Ecosystems in Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Danielewska ◽  
Marek Urbaniak ◽  
Janusz Olejnik
Keyword(s):  
Air Temperature ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Pine Forests ◽  
Net Ecosystem Productivity ◽  
Ecosystem Productivity ◽  
Season Length ◽  
Important Species ◽  
Growing Season Length

Abstract The Scots pine is one of the most important species in European and Asian forests. Due to a widespread occurrence of pine forests, their significance in the energy and mass exchange between the Earth surface and the atmosphere is also important, particularly in the context of climate change and greenhouse gases balance. The aim of this work is to present the relationship between the average annual net ecosystem productivity and growing season length, latitude and air temperature (tay) over Europe. Therefore, CO2 flux measurement data from eight European pine dominated forests were used. The observations suggest that there is a correlation between the intensity of CO2 uptake or emission by a forest stand and the above mentioned parameters. Based on the obtained results, all of the selected pine forest stands were CO2 sinks, except a site in northern Finland. The carbon dioxide uptake increased proportionally with the increase of growing season length (9.212 g C m-2 y-1 per day of growing season, R2 = 0.53, p = 0.0399). This dependency showed stronger correlation and higher statistical significance than both relationships between annual net ecosystem productivity and air temperature (R2 = 0.39, p = 0.096) and annual net ecosystem productivity and latitude (R2 = 0.47, p = 0.058). The CO2 emission surpassed assimilation in winter, early spring and late autumn. Moreover, the appearance of late, cold spring and early winter, reduced annual net ecosystem productivity. Therefore, the growing season length can be considered as one of the main factor affecting the annual carbon budget of pine forests.

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