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Further, by applying a component-flux-based approach NEP was calculated as the difference between the modelled gross photosynthesis and the respiratory fluxes from foliage, stem and soil obtained via upscaling from chamber measurements. A combination of biomass sampling, inventories and upscaling techniques was used to determine NEP via a pool-change-based approach.Across the three approaches, the net carbon balance ranged from 96 to 199\u00a0g\u00a0m\u22122\u00a0y\u22121 indicating a significant net carbon uptake by the SRC culture. During the establishment year the SRC culture was a net source of carbon to the atmosphere, but already during the second growing season there was a significant net uptake. Both the component-flux-based and pool-change-based approaches resulted in higher values (47\u2013108%) than the EC-estimation of NEE, though the results were comparable considering the considerable and variable uncertainty levels involved in the different approaches. The efficient biomass production \u2013 with the highest part of the total carbon uptake allocated to the aboveground wood \u2013 led the poplars to counterbalance the soil carbon losses resulting from land use change in a short period of time.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "NEE", "Renewable Energy", " Sustainability and the Environment", "Physics", "Carbon pools", "Forestry", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "Net primary production", "Carbon budget", "Populus", "Carbon fluxes", "Biology", "Engineering sciences. 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The biomass of wood, foliage, and roots was highest in the unthinned control stands, lowest in stands measured 3 years after thinning, and intermediate in the stands measured 16 years following the same prescription. While total wood net primary production (NPP) followed the same pattern as biomass across treatments, an apparent doubling of shrub foliage NPP in the 3 years following overstory thinning reduced the impacts of thinning on total foliage NPP. Similarly, reductions in coarse root NPP associated with tree removal were largely offset by increases in fine root production. Compensatory NPP by shrubs and fine roots increased the light use efficiency of thinned stands 60% over that of unthinned plots. Both soil respiration and the decomposition of aboveground dead wood appeared conserved across all treatments. Results suggest that when modeling the influence fuel reduction treatments on regional carbon dynamics, it may be necessary to consider the compensatory responses of understory vegetation as such shifts in growth form can effect meaningful changes in the capture and allocation of carbon in the ecosystem.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "13. Climate action", "thinning; carbon allocation; net primary production", "15. 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Elevated atmospheric CO2 treatments were combined with two cutting frequencies and three warming scenarios: no warming, +3.0/+3.0 and +2.2/+4.0\uffc2\uffb0C (day/night) atmospheric warming. The elevated CO2 treatment increased both new and net root length production primarily when combined with atmospheric warming, where the constant warming treatment had a greater positive effect than the increased night\uffe2\uff80\uff90time warming treatment. Responses to elevated CO2 were greater when the swards were cut more frequently and responsiveness varied with season. For Phalaris swards, 17% of total net primary productivity went belowground. On account of root turnover, only one\uffe2\uff80\uff90third of the new roots produced in the year following establishment could be expected, on average, to be recovered from soil cores. The interaction between the effects of CO2 and warming, combined with the differential effects of the two warming treatments, has important implications for modelling belowground responses to projected climate change.</p>", "keywords": ["580", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "net primary production", "Minirhizotron", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "carbon dioxide enrichment", "fine root", "01 natural sciences", "Root turnover", "Keywords: belowground production", "climate change", "Defoliation", "13. 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A dense poplar plantation (1 x 1 m) was exposed to a [CO2] of 550 ppm in Central Italy using the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) technique. Three species of Populus were examined, namely P. alba L., P. nigra L. and P. x euramericana Dode (Guinier). Aboveground woody biomass of trees exposed to elevated [CO2] for three growing seasons increased by 15 to 27%, depending on species. As a result, light-use efficiency increased. Aboveground biomass allocation was unaffected, and belowground biomass also increased under elevated [CO2] conditions, by 22 to 38%. Populus nigra, with total biomass equal to 62.02 and 72.03 Mg ha-1 in ambient and elevated [CO2], respectively, was the most productive species, although its productivity was stimulated least by atmospheric CO2 enrichment. There was greater depletion of inorganic nitrogen from the soil after three growing seasons in elevated [CO2], but no effect of [CO2] on stem wood density, which differed significantly only among species.", "keywords": ["soil n-availability", "0106 biological sciences", "Physiology", "pinus-sylvestris", "fine roots", "hybrid poplar", "Plant Science", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "Trees", "light-use efficiency", "carbon-dioxide enrichment", "Biomass", "Photosynthesis", "elevated atmospheric co2", "crown architecture", "net primary production", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Populus", "13. 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Methods for estimating photosynthesis from space commonly combine information on vegetation greenness, incoming radiation, temperature and atmospheric demand for water (vapour-pressure deficit), but do not account for the direct effects of low soil moisture. They instead rely on vapour-pressure deficit as a proxy for dryness, despite widespread evidence that soil moisture deficits have a direct impact on vegetation, independent of vapour-pressure deficit. Here, we use a globally distributed measurement network to assess the effect of soil moisture on photosynthesis, and identify a common bias in an ensemble of satellite-based estimates of photosynthesis that is governed by the magnitude of soil moisture effects on photosynthetic light-use efficiency. We develop methods to account for the influence of soil moisture and estimate that soil moisture effects reduce global annual photosynthesis by ~15%, increase interannual variability by more than 100% across 25% of the global vegetated land surface, and amplify the impacts of extreme events on primary production. These results demonstrate the importance of soil moisture effects for monitoring carbon-cycle variability and drought impacts on vegetation productivity from space.", "keywords": ["550", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience", "USE EFFICIENCY", "NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION", "Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences", "Geosciences", " Multidisciplinary", "WATER-STRESS", "Physical geography and environmental geoscience", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. 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A soil warming system and shading were used to vary soil temperature and received radiation independently in a temperate grassland dominated by Holcus lanatus L. Minirhizotrons allowed root growth and turnover to be examined non\uffe2\uff80\uff90destructively. In two short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (8 week) experiments, root responses to temperature were seasonally distinct. Root number increased when heating was applied during spring, but root death increased during autumnal heating. An experiment lasting 12 months demonstrated that any positive response to temperature was short\uffe2\uff80\uff90lived and that over a full growing season, soil warming led to a reduction in root number and mass due to increased root death during autumn and winter. Root respiration was also insensitive to soil temperature over much of the year. In contrast, root growth was strongly affected by incident radiation. Root biomass, length, birth rate, number and turnover were all reduced by shading. Photosynthesis in H. lanatus exhibited some acclimation to shading, but assimilation rates at growth irradiance were still lower in shaded plants. The negative effects of shading and soil warming on roots were additive. Comparison of root data with environmental measurements demonstrated a number of positive relationships with photosynthetically active radiation, but not with soil temperature. This was true both across the entire data set and within a shade treatment. These results demonstrate that root growth is unlikely to be directly affected by increased soil temperatures as a result of global warming, at least in temperate areas, and that predictions of net primary productivity should not be based on a positive root growth response to temperature.</p>", "keywords": ["Plantago lanceolata Acclimation", "Root respiration", "belowground production", "soil temperature", "warming", "Belowground net primary production", "550", "Received photosynthetically active radiation", "Root turnover", "Plantago lanceolata", "photosynthetically active radiation", "Plantago", "580", "2. Zero hunger", "Root demography", "Temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Minirhizotrons", "Keywords: acclimation", "climate change", "Holcus lanatus", "13. Climate action", "Lanceolata", "Soil warming", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "root system", "grassland", "shading", "respiration"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/495/1/fitterah10.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00729.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00729.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00729.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00729.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-01-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01406.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:18:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-08-28", "title": "The Legacy Of Harvest And Fire On Ecosystem Carbon Storage In A North Temperate Forest", "description": "Abstract<p>Forest harvesting and wildfire were widespread in the upper Great Lakes region of North America during the early 20th century. We examined how long this legacy of disturbance constrains forest carbon (C) storage rates by quantifying C pools and fluxes after harvest and fire in a mixed deciduous forest chronosequence in northern lower Michigan, USA. Study plots ranged in age from 6 to 68 years and were created following experimental clear\uffe2\uff80\uff90cut harvesting and fire disturbance. Annual C storage was estimated biometrically from measurements of wood, leaf, fine root, and woody debris mass, mass losses to herbivory, soil C content, and soil respiration. Maximum annual C storage in stands that were disturbed by harvest and fire twice was 26% less than a reference stand receiving the same disturbance only once. The mechanism for this reduction in annual C storage was a long\uffe2\uff80\uff90lasting decrease in site quality that endured over the 62\uffe2\uff80\uff90year timeframe examined. However, during regrowth the harvested and burned forest rapidly became a net C sink, storing 0.53\uffe2\uff80\uff83Mg\uffe2\uff80\uff83C\uffe2\uff80\uff83ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff83yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921after 6 years. Maximum net ecosystem production (1.35\uffe2\uff80\uff83Mg\uffe2\uff80\uff83C\uffe2\uff80\uff83ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff83yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) and annual C increment (0.95\uffe2\uff80\uff83Mg\uffe2\uff80\uff83C\uffe2\uff80\uff83ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff83yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) were recorded in the 24\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and 50\uffe2\uff80\uff90year\uffe2\uff80\uff90old stands, respectively. Net primary production averaged 5.19\uffe2\uff80\uff83Mg\uffe2\uff80\uff83C\uffe2\uff80\uff83ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff83yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921in experimental stands, increasing by &lt; 10% from 6 to 50 years. Soil heterotrophic respiration was more variable across stand ages, ranging from 3.85\uffe2\uff80\uff83Mg\uffe2\uff80\uff83C\uffe2\uff80\uff83ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff83yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921in the 6\uffe2\uff80\uff90year\uffe2\uff80\uff90old stand to 4.56\uffe2\uff80\uff83Mg\uffe2\uff80\uff83C\uffe2\uff80\uff83ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff83yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921in the 68\uffe2\uff80\uff90year\uffe2\uff80\uff90old stand. These results suggest that harvesting and fire disturbances broadly distributed across the region decades ago caused changes in site quality and successional status that continue to limit forest C storage rates.</p>", "keywords": ["disturbance", "570", "aspen", "net primary production", "net ecosystem production", "carbon storage", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "logging", "630", "succession", "northern hardwoods", "Biology", "fire", "legacy effects", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Katherine H. Harrold, Christoph S. Vogel, Peter S. Curtis, Christopher M. 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We tested the hypothesis that N limitation is widespread among biomes and influenced by geography and climate. We used the response ratio (R approximately equal ANPP(N)/ANPP(ctrl)) of aboveground plant growth in fertilized to control plots and found that most ecosystems are nitrogen limited with an average 29% growth response to nitrogen (i.e., R = 1.29). The response ratio was significant within temperate forests (R = 1.19), tropical forests (R = 1.60), temperate grasslands (R = 1.53), tropical grasslands (R = 1.26), wetlands (R = 1.16), and tundra (R = 1.35), but not deserts. Eight tropical forest studies had been conducted on very young volcanic soils in Hawaii, and this subgroup was strongly N limited (R = 2.13), which resulted in a negative correlation between forest R and latitude. The degree of N limitation in the remainder of the tropical forest studies (R = 1.20) was comparable to that of temperate forests, and when the young Hawaiian subgroup was excluded, forest R did not vary with latitude. Grassland response increased with latitude, but was independent of temperature and precipitation. These results suggest that the global N and C cycles interact strongly and that geography can mediate ecosystem response to N within certain biome types.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Evolutionary Biology", "Ecology", "Nitrogen", "carbon", "Climate", "net primary production", "Plant Development", "nitrogen fertilization", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "Carbon", "Trees", "meta-analysis", "nitrogen deposition", "13. Climate action", "Ecological Applications", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "resource limitation", "Biomass", "Fertilizers", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt998412zp/qt998412zp.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/06-2057.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/06-2057.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/06-2057.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/06-2057.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/bg-16-4851-2019", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:21:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-12-20", "title": "\"Global biosphere\u2013climate interaction: a causal appraisal of observations and models over multiple temporal scales\"", "description": "<p>Abstract. Improving the skill of Earth system models (ESMs) in representing climate\uffe2\uff80\uff93vegetation interactions is crucial to enhance our predictions of future climate and ecosystem functioning. Therefore, ESMs need to correctly simulate the impact of climate on vegetation, but likewise feedbacks of vegetation on climate must be adequately represented. However, model predictions at large spatial scales remain subjected to large uncertainties, mostly due to the lack of observational patterns to benchmark them. Here, the bidirectional nature of climate\uffe2\uff80\uff93vegetation interactions is explored across multiple temporal scales by adopting a spectral Granger causality framework that allows identification of potentially co-dependent variables. Results based on global and multi-decadal records of remotely sensed leaf area index (LAI) and observed atmospheric data show that the climate control on vegetation variability increases with longer temporal scales, being higher at inter-annual than multi-month scales. Globally, precipitation is the most dominant driver of vegetation at monthly scales, particularly in (semi-)arid regions. The seasonal LAI variability in energy-driven latitudes is mainly controlled by radiation, while air temperature controls vegetation growth and decay in high northern latitudes at inter-annual scales. These observational results are used as a benchmark to evaluate four ESM simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase\uffc2\uffa05 (CMIP5). Findings indicate a tendency of ESMs to over-represent the climate control on LAI dynamics and a particular overestimation of the dominance of precipitation in arid and semi-arid regions at inter-annual scales. Analogously, CMIP5 models overestimate the control of air temperature on seasonal vegetation variability, especially in forested regions. Overall, climate impacts on LAI are found to be stronger than the feedbacks of LAI on climate in both observations and models; in other words, local climate variability leaves a larger imprint on temporal LAI dynamics than vice versa. Note however that while vegetation reacts directly to its local climate conditions, the spatially collocated character of the analysis does not allow for the identification of remote feedbacks, which might result in an underestimation of the biophysical effects of vegetation on climate. Nonetheless, the widespread effect of LAI variability on radiation, as observed over the northern latitudes due to albedo changes, is overestimated by the CMIP5 models. Overall, our experiments emphasise the potential of benchmarking the representation of particular interactions in online ESMs using causal statistics in combination with observational data, as opposed to the more conventional evaluation of the magnitude and dynamics of individual variables.                     </p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Evolution", "LAND-SURFACE MODELS", "01 natural sciences", "RECENT TRENDS", "03 medical and health sciences", "Behavior and Systematics", "Life", "QH501-531", "NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION", "QH540-549.5", "Earth-Surface Processes", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "QE1-996.5", "EARTH SYSTEM MODEL", "Ecology", "LEAF-AREA INDEX", "Biology and Life Sciences", "Geology", "15. Life on land", "DATA SETS", "13. 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Here we conducted a meta-analysis using 734 observations to explore  the effects of land recovery on the soil organic carbon and nutrients in 4  provinces in Southwest China. Following GGP, the soil organic carbon  content (SOCc) and soil organic carbon storage (SOCs) increased by 33.73%  and 22.39%, respectively. Likewise, soil nitrogen increased, while  phosphorus decreased. Outcomes were heterogeneous, however, depending on  variation in soil and environmental characteristics. Both the regional  land use and cover change indicated by landscape type transfer matrix and  net primary production from 2000 to 2020 further confirmed that GGP  promoted the forest area (2.95%) and regional mean net primary production  (52.94%). Our findings suggest that GGP could enhance soil and vegetation  carbon sequestration in Southwest China and help to develop carbon neutral  strategy.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil organic carbon", "Net primary production", "Grain for Green Program", "FOS: Other natural sciences", "landscape type transfer matrix", "forest restoration", "15. 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The dataset also includes the environmental parameters used for the redundancy analysis in the article. Supplement to: Yedema et al., (2023); Dinoflagellate cyst and pollen assemblages as tracers for marine productivity and river input in the northern Gulf of Mexico (https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-42-257-2023)", "keywords": ["nutrient concentration", "Gulf of Mexico", "NPP", "net primary production", "15. Life on land", "dinoflagellate cyst", "SSS", "SST", "sea surface temperature", "dinocyst", "pollen", "Mississippi river", "14. 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Methods for estimating photosynthesis from space commonly combine information on vegetation greenness, incoming radiation, temperature and atmospheric demand for water (vapour-pressure deficit), but do not account for the direct effects of low soil moisture. They instead rely on vapour-pressure deficit as a proxy for dryness, despite widespread evidence that soil moisture deficits have a direct impact on vegetation, independent of vapour-pressure deficit. Here, we use a globally distributed measurement network to assess the effect of soil moisture on photosynthesis, and identify a common bias in an ensemble of satellite-based estimates of photosynthesis that is governed by the magnitude of soil moisture effects on photosynthetic light-use efficiency. We develop methods to account for the influence of soil moisture and estimate that soil moisture effects reduce global annual photosynthesis by ~15%, increase interannual variability by more than 100% across 25% of the global vegetated land surface, and amplify the impacts of extreme events on primary production. These results demonstrate the importance of soil moisture effects for monitoring carbon-cycle variability and drought impacts on vegetation productivity from space.", "keywords": ["550", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience", "USE EFFICIENCY", "NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION", "Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences", "Geosciences", " Multidisciplinary", "WATER-STRESS", "Physical geography and environmental geoscience", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. 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