Vegetation growth responses to climate change : A cross-scale analysis of biological memory and time lags using tree ring and satellite data

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Veröffentlicht in:Global change biology. - 1999. - 30(2024), 7 vom: 22. Juli, Seite e17441
1. Verfasser: Tang, Wenxi (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Liu, Shuguang, Jing, Mengdan, Healey, John R, Smith, Marielle N, Farooq, Taimoor Hassan, Zhu, Liangjun, Zhao, Shuqing, Wu, Yiping
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Global change biology
Schlagworte:Journal Article canopy condition climate change time‐lag effect tree ring vegetation growth vegetation growth carryover
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Zusammenfassung:© 2024 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Vegetation growth is affected by past growth rates and climate variability. However, the impacts of vegetation growth carryover (VGC; biotic) and lagged climatic effects (LCE; abiotic) on tree stem radial growth may be decoupled from photosynthetic capacity, as higher photosynthesis does not always translate into greater growth. To assess the interaction of tree-species level VGC and LCE with ecosystem-scale photosynthetic processes, we utilized tree-ring width (TRW) data for three tree species: Castanopsis eyrei (CE), Castanea henryi (CH, Chinese chinquapin), and Liquidambar formosana (LF, Chinese sweet gum), along with satellite-based data on canopy greenness (EVI, enhanced vegetation index), leaf area index (LAI), and gross primary productivity (GPP). We used vector autoregressive models, impulse response functions, and forecast error variance decomposition to analyze the duration, intensity, and drivers of VGC and of LCE response to precipitation, temperature, and sunshine duration. The results showed that at the tree-species level, VGC in TRW was strongest in the first year, with an average 77% reduction in response intensity by the fourth year. VGC and LCE exhibited species-specific patterns; compared to CE and CH (diffuse-porous species), LF (ring-porous species) exhibited stronger VGC but weaker LCE. For photosynthetic capacity at the ecosystem scale (EVI, LAI, and GPP), VGC and LCE occurred within 96 days. Our study demonstrates that VGC effects play a dominant role in vegetation function and productivity, and that vegetation responses to previous growth states are decoupled from climatic variability. Additionally, we discovered the possibility for tree-ring growth to be decoupled from canopy condition. Investigating VGC and LCE of multiple indicators of vegetation growth at multiple scales has the potential to improve the accuracy of terrestrial global change models
Beschreibung:Date Completed 26.07.2024
Date Revised 26.07.2024
published: Print
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1365-2486
DOI:10.1111/gcb.17441