1. Biotic and climatic controls on interannual variability in carbon fluxes across terrestrial ecosystems
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Shao, Junjiong, Andrej Varlagin, Andrew Suyker, Bo Li, David Billesbach, Guirui Yu, Huimin Wang, Jiquan Chen, Junhua Yan, Junhui Zhang, Krisztina Pinter, Lianhong Gu, Marc Fischer, Margaret Torn, Mika Aurela, Peili Shi, Peter D. Blanken, Rosvel Bracho, Shijie Han, Shuli Niu, Thomas Kolb, Walter C. Oechel, Xuhui Zhou, Yingnian Li, Yiqi Luo, Yongtao He, Yuling Fu, and Zoltan Nagy
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Net ecosystem exchange ,Interannual variability ,Biotic effect ,Climatic effect ,Relative importance ,Climatic stress ,Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences ,Earth Sciences ,Biological Sciences ,Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences - Abstract
Interannual variability (IAV, represented by standard deviation) in net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) is mainly driven by climatic drivers and biotic variations (i.e., the changes in photosynthetic and respiratory responses to climate), the effects of which are referred to as climatic (CE) and biotic effects (BE), respectively. Evaluating the relative contributions of CE and BE to the IAV in carbon (C) fluxes and understanding their controlling mechanisms are critical in projecting ecosystem changes in the future climate. In this study, we applied statistical methods with flux data from 65 sites located in the Northern Hemisphere to address this issue. Our results showed that the relative contribution of BE (CnBE) and CE (CnCE) to the IAV in NEE was 57%±14% and 43%±14%, respectively. The discrepancy in the CnBE among sites could be largely explained by water balance index (WBI). Across water-stressed ecosystems, the CnBE decreased with increasing aridity (slope=0.18%mm−1). In addition, the CnBE tended to increase and the uncertainty reduced as timespan of available data increased from 5 to 15 years. Inter-site variation of the IAV in NEE mainly resulted from the IAV in BE (72%) compared to that in CE (37%). Interestingly, positive correlations between BE and CE occurred in grasslands and dry ecosystems (r>0.45, P
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- 2015