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Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

Fabien H. Wagner (1) , Bruno Hérault (2) , Damien Bonal (3) , Clément Stahl (2) , Liana O. Anderson (1) , Timothy R. Baker (4) , Gabriel Sebastian Becker (5) , Hans Beeckman (6) , Danilo Boanerges Souza (7) , Paulo Cesar Botosso (8) , David M. Bowman (9) , Achim Bräuning (10) , Benjamin Brede (11) , Foster Irving Brown (12) , Jesus Julio Camarero (13) , Plínio Barbosa Camargo (14) , Fernanda C. G. Cardoso (15) , Fabrício Alvim Carvalho (16) , Wendeson Castro (12) , Rubens Koloski Chagas (14) , Jérôme Chave (17) , Emmanuel N. Chidumayo (18) , Deborah A. Clark (19) , Flavia Regina Capellotto Costa (7) , Camille Couralet (6) , Paulo Henrique Silva (12) , Helmut Dalitz (5) , Vinicius Resende de Castro (20) , Jaçanan Eloisa de Freitas Milani (15) , Edilson Consuelo de Oliveira (12) , Luciano de Souza Arruda (21) , Jean-Louis Devineau (22) , David M. Drew (23) , Oliver Dünisch (24) , Giselda Durigan (25) , Elisha Elifuraha (26) , Marcio Fedele (14) , Ligia Ferreira Fedele (14) , Afonso Figueiredo Filho (27) , César Augusto Guimarães Finger (28) , Augusto César Franco (29) , João Lima Freitas Júnior (12) , Franklin Galvão (15) , Aster Gebrekirstos (30) , Robert Gliniars (5) , Paulo Maurício Lima de Alencastro Graça (7) , Anthony D. Griffiths (31) , James Grogan (32) , Kaiyu Guan (33) , Jürgen Homeier (34) , Maria Raquel Kanieski (35) , Lip Khoon Kho (36) , Jennifer Koenig (37) , Sintia Valerio Kohler (27) , Julia Krepkowski (10) , José Pires Lemos-Filho (38) , Diana Lieberman (39) , Milton Eugene Lieberman (39) , Claudio Sergio Lisi (14) , Tomaz Longhi Santo (15) , José Luis López Ayala (40) , Eduardo Eijji Maeda (41) , Yadvinder Malhi (42) , Vivian R. B. Maria (14) , Marcia C. M. Marques (15) , Renato Marques (15) , Hector Maza Chamba (43) , Lawrence Mbwambo (26) , Karina Liana Lisboa Melgaço (7) , Hooz Angela Mendivelso (13) , Brett P. Murphy (37) , Joseph J. O'Brien (44) , Steven F. Oberbauer (45) , Naoki Okada (46) , Raphaël Pélissier (47) , Lynda D. Prior (9) , Fidel Alejandro Roig (48) , Michael Ross (49) , Davi Rodrigo Rossatto (50) , Vivien Rossi (51) , Lucy Rowland (52) , Ervan Rutishauser (53) , Hellen Santana (7) , Mark Schulze (54) , Diogo Selhorst (55) , Williamar Rodrigues Silva (56) , Marcos Silveira (12) , Susanne Spannl (10) , Michael D. Swaine (57) , José Julio Toledo (58) , Marcos Miranda Toledo (59) , Marisol Toledo (60) , Takeshi Toma (61) , Mario Tomazello Filho (14) , Juan Ignacio Valdez Hernández (40) , Jan Verbesselt (11) , Simone Aparecida Vieira (62) , Grégoire Vincent (47) , Carolina Volkmer de Castilho (56) , Franziska Volland (10) , Martin Worbes (34) , Magda Lea Bolzan Zanon (63) , Luiz E. O. C. Aragão (1)
1 INPE - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
2 UMR ECOFOG - Ecologie des forêts de Guyane
3 EEF - Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières [devient SILVA en 2018]
4 School of Geography [Leeds]
5 Universität Hohenheim
6 RMCA - Royal Museum for Central Africa [Tervuren]
7 INPA - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia = National Institute of Amazonian Research
8 Embrapa - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation = Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária
9 UTAS - University of Tasmania [Hobart]
10 FAU - Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg = University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
11 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
12 UFAC - Universidade Federal do Acre
13 CSIC - Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas
14 USP - Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo
15 UFPR - Universidade Federal do Parana [Curitiba]
16 UFJF - Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
17 EDB - Evolution et Diversité Biologique
18 Biological Sciences Department
19 University of Missouri [St. Louis]
20 UFV [Brésil] - Universidade Federal de Viçosa [Brasil] = Federal University of Viçosa [Brazil] = Université fédérale de Viçosa [Brésil]
21 Prefeitura municipal RIo Branco
22 PALOC - Patrimoines Locaux et Gouvernance
23 Stellenbosch University
24 Meisterschule Ebern Schreinerhandwerk
25 Floresta Estadual Assis
26 TAFORI - Tanzania Forestry Research Institute
27 UEZO - Centro Universitário Estadual da Zona Oeste [Rio de Janeiro]
28 UFSM - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria = Federal University of Santa Maria [Santa Maria, RS, Brazil]
29 UnB - Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília]
30 ICRAF - World Agroforestry Center [CGIAR, Kenya]
31 Northern Territory Government
32 Mount Holyoke College
33 Illinois State University
34 Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
35 UFSC - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina = Federal University of Santa Catarina [Florianópolis]
36 Malaysian Palm Oil Board
37 Charles Darwin University [Australia]
38 UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais = Federal University of Minas Gerais [Belo Horizonte, Brazil]
39 CSUMB - California State University [Monterey Bay]
40 Campus de Montecillo
41 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
42 SoGE - School of Geography and the Environment [Oxford]
43 UTPL - Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
44 USDA - USDA Agricultural Research Service [Maricopa, AZ]
45 Department of Biological Sciences [Miami]
46 Graduate School of Agriculture
47 UMR AMAP - Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations
48 CONICET - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires]
49 Department of Earth and Environment
50 UNIP - Universidade Paulista [São Paulo]
51 UPR Forêts et Sociétés - Forêts et Sociétés
52 School of Geosciences [Edinburgh]
53 CarboForExpert
54 OSU - Oregon State University
55 Ibama
56 UFRR - Universidade Federal de Roraima
57 School of Biological Sciences
58 Federal University of Amapà
59 Embrapa - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária
60 UAGRM - Universidad Autonoma Gabriel René Moreno
61 Department of Forest Vegetation
62 UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas = University of Campinas
63 Departamento de Engenharia Florestal
Bruno Hérault
Clément Stahl
Jérôme Chave
Jean-Louis Devineau
Giselda Durigan
Vivien Rossi
Lucy Rowland
Ervan Rutishauser
  • Function : Author
Diogo Selhorst
  • Function : Author
Marcos Silveira

Abstract

The seasonal climate drivers of the carbon cycle in tropical forests remain poorly known, although these forests account for more carbon assimilation and storage than any other terrestrial ecosystem. Based on a unique combination of seasonal pan-tropical data sets from 89 experimental sites (68 include aboveground wood productivity measurements and 35 litter productivity measurements), their associated canopy photosynthetic capacity (enhanced vegetation index, EVI) and climate, we ask how carbon assimilation and aboveground allocation are related to climate seasonality in tropical forests and how they interact in the seasonal carbon cycle. We found that canopy photosynthetic capacity seasonality responds positively to precipitation when rainfall is < 2000 mm yr(-1) (water-limited forests) and to radiation otherwise (light-limited forests). On the other hand, independent of climate limitations, wood productivity and litterfall are driven by seasonal variation in precipitation and evapotranspiration, respectively. Consequently, light-limited forests present an asynchronism between canopy photosynthetic capacity and wood productivity. First-order control by precipitation likely indicates a decrease in tropical forest productivity in a drier climate in water-limited forest, and in current light-limited forest with future rainfall < 2000 mm yr(-1).
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hal-01557759 , version 1 (06-07-2017)

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Fabien H. Wagner, Bruno Hérault, Damien Bonal, Clément Stahl, Liana O. Anderson, et al.. Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests. Biogeosciences, 2016, 13 (8), pp.2537-2562. ⟨10.5194/bg-13-2537-2016⟩. ⟨hal-01557759⟩
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