https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/340935
標題: | Role of vegetation in determining carbon sequestration along ecological succession in the southeastern United States | 作者: | PAUL C. STOY JUANG, JEHN-YIH et al. |
關鍵字: | Ecological succession; Ecosystem respiration; Eddy covariance; Grass field; Gross ecosystem productivity; Net ecosystem exchange; Oak-hickory forest; Pinus taeda | 公開日期: | 六月-2008 | 卷: | 14 | 期: | 6 | 起(迄)頁: | 1409--1427 | 來源出版物: | Global Change Biology | 摘要: | Vegetation plays a central role in controlling terrestrial carbon (C) exchange, but quantifying its impacts on C cycling on time scales of ecological succession is hindered by a lack of long-term observations. The net ecosystem exchange of carbon (NEE) was measured for several years in adjacent ecosystems that represent distinct phases of ecological succession in the southeastern USA. The experiment was designed to isolate the role of vegetation - apart from climate and soils - in controlling biosphere-atmosphere fluxes of CO2 and water vapor. NEE was near zero over 5 years at an early successional old-field ecosystem (OF). However, mean annual NEE was nearly equal, approximately -450 g C m-2 yr-1, at an early successional planted pine forest (PP) and a late successional hardwood forest (HW) due to the sensitivity of the former to drought and ice storm damage. We hypothesize that these observations can be explained by the relationships between gross ecosystem productivity (GEP), ecosystem respiration (RE) and canopy conductance, and long-term shifts in ecosystem physiology in response to climate to maintain near-constant ecosystem-level water-use efficiency (EWUE). Data support our hypotheses, but future research should examine if GEP and RE are causally related or merely controlled by similar drivers. At successional time scales, GEP and RE observations generally followed predictions from E. P. Odum's 'Strategy of Ecosystem Development', with the surprising exception that the relationship between GEP and RE resulted in large NEE at the late successional HW. A practical consequence of this research suggests that plantation forestry may confer no net benefit over the conservation of mature forests for C sequestration. © 2008 The Authors Journal compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
URI: | http://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/340935 | DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01587.x | SDG/關鍵字: | carbon sequestration; eddy covariance; net ecosystem exchange; plantation forestry; succession; vegetation; North America; United States; Carya; Pinus taeda |
顯示於: | 地理環境資源學系 |
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