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Roles of Climate, Vegetation and Soil in Regulating the Spatial Variations in Ecosystem Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in the Northern Hemisphere

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  • Zhi Chen
  • Guirui Yu
  • Jianping Ge
  • Qiufeng Wang
  • Xianjin Zhu
  • Zhiwei Xu

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Climate, vegetation, and soil characteristics play important roles in regulating the spatial variation in carbon dioxide fluxes, but their relative influence is still uncertain. In this study, we compiled data from 241 eddy covariance flux sites in the Northern Hemisphere and used Classification and Regression Trees and Redundancy Analysis to assess how climate, vegetation, and soil affect the spatial variations in three carbon dioxide fluxes (annual gross primary production (AGPP), annual ecosystem respiration (ARE), and annual net ecosystem production (ANEP)). Our results showed that the spatial variations in AGPP, ARE, and ANEP were significantly related to the climate and vegetation factors (correlation coefficients, R = 0.22 to 0.69, P 0.05) in the Northern Hemisphere. The climate and vegetation together explained 60 % and 58 % of the spatial variations in AGPP and ARE, respectively. Climate factors (mean annual temperature and precipitation) could account for 45 - 47 % of the spatial variations in AGPP and ARE, but the climate constraint on the vegetation index explained approximately 75 %. Our findings suggest that climate factors affect the spatial variations in AGPP and ARE mainly by regulating vegetation properties, while soil factors exert a minor effect. To more accurately assess global carbon balance and predict ecosystem responses to climate change, these discrepant roles of climate, vegetation, and soil are required to be fully considered in the future land surface models. Moreover, our results showed that climate and vegetation factors failed to capture the spatial variation in ANEP and suggest that to reveal the underlying mechanism for variation in ANEP, taking into account the effects of other factors (such as climate change and disturbances) is necessary.

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  • Zhi Chen & Guirui Yu & Jianping Ge & Qiufeng Wang & Xianjin Zhu & Zhiwei Xu, 2015. "Roles of Climate, Vegetation and Soil in Regulating the Spatial Variations in Ecosystem Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in the Northern Hemisphere," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(4), pages 1-14, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0125265
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125265
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    1. Liu, Chen & Wang, Fang-Guang & Xue, Qiang & Li, Li & Wang, Zhen, 2022. "Pattern formation of a spatial vegetation system with root hydrotropism," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 420(C).
    2. Xue, Qiang & Liu, Chen & Li, Li & Sun, Gui-Quan & Wang, Zhen, 2021. "Interactions of diffusion and nonlocal delay give rise to vegetation patterns in semi-arid environments," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 399(C).

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