Water-use efficiency of an old-growth forest in lower subtropical China.
Sci Rep
; 7: 42761, 2017 02 21.
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| ID: mdl-28220832
ABSTRACT
Carbon and water fluxes are key properties of ecosystem processes and functions. A better understanding of their temporal dynamics and coupling mechanism between these fluxes will help us improve ecosystem management for mitigation as well as adaption to future climatic change. From 2003 to 2009, carbon and water flux data were obtained by the eddy covariance method over an old-growth forest in the lower subtropical China. The 7 years of observational data indicated that the water-use efficiency (WUE) of the old-growth forest exhibited weak inter-annual variability. The mean annual WUE ranged from 1.70 to 1.98 g C kg-1 H2O. An analysis of the effects of environmental variables on the monthly gross primary productivity (GPP) and evapotranspiration (ET) indicated that solar radiation, air temperature, precipitation and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) produced similar effects on the monthly GPP and ET, which suggests that photosynthesis and ET were similarly driven by the climatic variables. At the monthly scale, the WUE decreased significantly as the precipitation and soil moisture content increased. However, a significant correlation was not detected between the WUE and the VPD at the monthly scale. Moisture conditions tend to be major drivers of the ecosystem WUE.
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Árboles
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Bosques
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Biomasa
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Magnoliopsida
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Ciclo Hidrológico
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Sci Rep
Año:
2017
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Article
País de afiliación:
China