Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

Chuixiang Yi, Daniel Ricciuto, Runze Li, John Wolbeck, Xiyan Xu, Mats Nilsson, Luise Aires, John Albertson, Christof Ammann, M Altaf Arain, Allessandro C de araujo, Marc Aubinet, Mika Aurela, Zoltan Barcza, Alan Barr, Paul Berbigier, Jason Beringer, Christian Bernhofer, Andrew Black, Paul BolstadFred Bosveld, Mark Broadmeadow, Nina Buchmann, Sean Burns, Pierre Cellier, Jingming Chen, Jiquan Chen, Philippe Ciais, Robert Clement, Bruce Cook, Peter Curtis, D Bryan Dail, Ebba Dellwik, Nicolas Delpierre, Ankur Desai, Sabina Dore, Danilo Dragoni, Bert Drake, Eric Dufrene, Allison Dunn, Jan Elbers, Werner Eugster, Matthias Falk, Christian Feigenwinter, Lawrence Flanagan, Thomas Foken, John Frank, Juerg Fuhrer, Damiano Gianelle, Allen Goldstein, Mike Goulden, Andre Granier, Thomas Grunwald, Lianhong Gu, Haiqiang Guo, Albin Hammerle, Shijie Han, Niall Hanan, Laszlo Haszpra, Bernard Heinesch, Carole Helfter, Dimmie Hendriks, Lindsay Hutley, Andreas Ibrom, Cor Jacobs, Torbjorn Johansson, Marjan Jongen, Gabriel Katul, Gerard Kiely, Katja Klumpp, Alexander Knohl, Thomas Kolb, Werner Kutsch, Peter Lafleur, Tuomas Laurila, Ray Leuning, Anders Lindroth, Heping Liu, Benjamin Loubet, Giovanni Manca, Michal Marek, Hank Margolis, Timothy Martin, William Massman, Roser Matamala, Giorgio Matteucci, Harry McCaughey, Lutz Merbold, Tilden Meyers, Mirco Migliavacca, Franco Miglietta, Laurent Misson, Meelis Molder, John Moncrieff, Russell Monson, Leonardo Montagnani, Mario Montes-Helu, Eddy Moors, Christine Moureaux, Mukufute Mukelabai, J William Munger, May Myklebust, Zoltan Nagy, Asko Noormets, Walter Oechel, Ram Oren, Stephen G Pallardy, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Joao S Pereira, Kim Pilegaard, Krisztina Pinter, Casimiro Pio, Gabriel Pita, Thomas L Powell, Serge Rambal, James T Randerson, Celso von Randow, Corinna Rebmann, Janne Rinne, Federica Rossi, Nigel Roulet, Ronald J Ryel, Jorgen Sagerfors, Nobuko Saigusa, Maria Jose Sanz, Giuseppe-Scarascia Mugnozza, Hans Peter Schmid, Guenther Seufert, Mario Siqueira, Jean-Francois Soussana, Gregory Starr, Mark A Sutton, John Tenhunen, Zoltan Tuba, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Riccardo Valentini, Christoph S Vogel, Jingxin Wang, Shaoqiang Wang, Weiguo Wang, Lisa R Welp, Xuefa Wen, Sonia Wharton, Matthew Wilkinson, Christopher A Williams, Georg Wohlfahrt, Susumu Yamamoto, Guirui Yu, Roberto Zampedri, Bin Zhao, Xinquan Zhao

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    Abstract

    Understanding the relationships between climate and carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems is critical to predict future levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide because of the potential accelerating effects of positive climate-carbon cycle feedbacks. However, directly observed relationships between climate and terrestrial CO2exchange with the atmosphere across biomes and continents are lacking. Here we present data describing the relationships between net ecosystem exchange of carbon (NEE) and climate factors as measured using the eddy covariance method at 125 unique sites in various ecosystems over six continents with a total of 559 site-years. We find that NEE observed at eddy covariance sites is (1) a strong function of mean annual temperature at mid- and high-latitudes, (2) a strong function of dryness at mid- and low-latitudes, and (3) a function of both temperature and dryness around the mid-latitudinal belt (45�N). The sensitivity of NEE to mean annual temperature breaks down at ?16 �C (a threshold value of mean annual temperature), above which no further increase of CO,.2uptake with temperature was observed and dryness influence overrules temperature influence. � 2010 lOP Publishing Ltd.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1-10
    Number of pages10
    JournalEnvironmental Research Letters
    Volume5
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010

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