Journal article
Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents
City College of New York1
University of Liege2
Clark University3
Okayama University4
Finnish Meteorological Institute5
Eotvos Lorand University6
Climate Research Division7
INRAE8
Monash University9
Dresden University of Technology10
University of British Columbia11
University of Minnesota Twin Cities12
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute13
Oak Ridge National Laboratory14
Forestry Commission England15
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich16
National Center for Atmospheric Research17
National Institute for Agronomic Research18
University of Toronto19
University of Toledo20
CNRS21
University of Edinburgh22
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center23
Ohio State University24
Pennsylvania State University25
University of Maine26
Meteorology, Wind Energy Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark27
Wind Energy Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark28
Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark29
Université Paris-Sud30
University of Wisconsin-Madison31
Northern Arizona University32
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis33
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center34
Worcester State University35
Lund University36
Alterra37
University of California at Davis38
University of Basel39
University of Lethbridge40
University of Bayreuth41
United States Department of Agriculture42
Edmund Mach Foundation43
University of California at Berkeley44
University of California at Irvine45
Fudan University46
Polytechnic Institute of Leiria47
University of Innsbruck48
Chinese Academy of Sciences49
Colorado State University50
Hungarian Meteorological Service51
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology52
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam53
Charles Darwin University54
Ecosystems, Biosystems Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark55
Biosystems Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark56
Technical University of Lisbon57
Duke University58
University College Cork59
Johann Heinrich von Thunen Institute60
Trent University61
CSIRO62
Jackson State University63
National Research Council of Italy64
Czech Academy of Sciences65
Université Laval66
University of Florida67
Argonne National Laboratory68
Agroscope69
Queen's University Kingston70
Max Planck Institute71
Universitá degli Studi di Milano72
University of Colorado Boulder73
Alterra Green World Research74
Zambia Meteorological Department75
Harvard University76
Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences77
North Carolina State University78
San Diego State University79
McMaster University80
University of Missouri81
Biosystems Division. Management, Biosystems Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark82
University of Aveiro83
Instituto Superior Técnico84
National Institute of Space Research85
University of Helsinki86
McGill University87
Utah State University88
National Institute for Environmental Studies89
Parque Tecnologico90
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia91
Agricultural Research Council92
Forschungs Zentrum Karlsruhe GmbH93
European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute94
University of Alabama95
Tuscia University96
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor97
Liaoning Normal University98
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration99
University of California at San Diego100
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory101
...and 91 moreUnderstanding 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 CO2 exchange 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 CO2 uptake with temperature was observed and dryness influence overrules temperature influence.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Pages: | 034007 |
| ISBN: | 0875900720 , 1118664280 , 9780875900728 and 9781118664285 |
| ISSN: | 17489326 and 17489318 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034007 |
| ORCIDs: | Dellwik, Ebba , Ibrom, Andreas and Pilegaard, Kim |
