Quantifying forest net primary production: combining eddy flux, inventory and metabolic theory

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Quantifying forest net primary production: combining eddy flux, inventory and metabolic theory

Zheng-Hong Tan^(1-2) , Alice Hughes⁽²⁾, Tamotsu Sato⁽³⁾, Yi-Ping Zhang⁽²⁾, Shi-Jie Han⁽⁴⁾, Yoshiko Kosugi⁽⁵⁾, Michael Goulden⁽⁶⁾, Xiao-Bao Deng⁽²⁾, Min Cao⁽²⁾, Zhan-Qing Hao⁽⁴⁾, Yue-Hua Hu⁽²⁾, Gui-Rui Yu⁽⁷⁾, Ke-Ping Ma⁽⁸⁾

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 475-482 (2017)
doi: https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor2159-010
Published: Apr 12, 2017 - Copyright © 2017 SISEF

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Net primary production (N_PP) is a central and fundamental carbon-related term in global change studies. We proposed a top-down method to quantifying forest N_PP which overcomes the deficits of the traditional bottom-up method. The new top-down method combines eddy flux data, climate variables, tree inventory and metabolic theory. Our method was tested in six forests and provides reliable annual N_PP estimations which are consistent with bottom-up results. Carbon use efficiency also supports this new method. Taking advantage of fine temporal resolution of our top-down method, we examined whether and confirmed N_PP was well correlated with leaf area index at a seasonal scale, as suggested by past studies. The potential value of our new method as a standard N_PP method is high because of the world-wide network on eddy tower and inventory plot, however further data of performance of the new method is needed to fully evaluate its performance under different conditions.

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Carbon Use Efficiency, Metabolic Theory of Ecology, Autotrophic Respiration, Biomass, Eddy Covariance

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(1)

Ecology Program, Department of Environmental Science, Hainan University, Haikou 570228 (China)

(2)

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223 (China)

(3)

Department of Forest Vegetation, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba 305-8687 (Japan)

(4)

Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016 (China)

(5)

Forest Hydrology Lab, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)

(6)

Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine 92697 (USA)

(7)

Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 (China)

(8)

Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093 (China)

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Zheng-Hong Tan
tanzh@xtbg.ac.cn

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Tan Z-H, Hughes A, Sato T, Zhang Y-P, Han S-J, Kosugi Y, Goulden M, Deng X-B, Cao M, Hao Z-Q, Hu Y-H, Yu G-R, Ma K-P (2017). Quantifying forest net primary production: combining eddy flux, inventory and metabolic theory. iForest 10: 475-482. - doi: 10.3832/ifor2159-010

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Received: Jul 01, 2016
Accepted: Feb 13, 2017

First online: Apr 12, 2017
Publication Date: Apr 30, 2017
Publication Time: 1.93 months

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