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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Amazônia Oriental.
Data corrente: | 17/11/2020
Data da última atualização: | 26/11/2020
Autoria: | SMITH, M. N.; TAYLOR, T. C.; HAREN, J. van; ROSOLEM, R.; RESTREPO-COUPE, N.; ADAMS, J.; WU, J.; OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, R. C. de; SILVA, R. da; ARAUJO, A. C. de; CAMARGO, P. B. de; HUXMAN, T. E.; SALESKA, S. R.
Afiliação: | Marielle N. Smith, University of Arizona / Michigan State University; Tyeen C. Taylor, University of Arizona / University of Michigan; Joost van Haren, University of Arizona; Rafael Rosolem, University of Bristol; Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, University of Arizona / University of Technology Sydney; John Adams, University of Arizona; Jin Wu, The University of Hong Kong; RAIMUNDO COSME DE OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, CPATU; Rodrigo da Silva, UFOPA; ALESSANDRO CARIOCA DE ARAUJO, CPATU / INPA; Plinio B. de Camargo, CENA/USP; Travis E. Huxman, University of California; Scott R. Saleska, University of Arizona.
Título: | Empirical evidence for resilience of tropical forest photosynthesis in a warmer world.
Ano de publicação: | 2020
Fonte/Imprenta: | Nature Plants, v. 6, p. 1225-1230, 2020.
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-00780-2
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | Tropical forests may be vulnerable to climate change if photosynthetic carbon uptake currently operates near a high temperature limit. Predicting tropical forest function requires understanding the relative contributions of two mechanisms of high-temperature photosynthetic declines: stomatal limitation (H1), an indirect response due to temperature-associated changes in atmospheric vapour pressure deficit (VPD), and biochemical restrictions (H2), a direct temperature response. Their relative control predicts different outcomes-H1 is expected to diminish with stomatal responses to future co-occurring elevated atmospheric [CO2], whereas H2 portends declining photosynthesis with increasing temperatures. Distinguishing the two mechanisms at high temperatures is therefore critical, but difficult because VPD is highly correlated with temperature in natural settings. We used a forest mesocosm to quantify the sensitivity of tropical gross ecosystem productivity (GEP) to future temperature regimes while constraining VPD by controlling humidity. We then analytically decoupled temperature and VPD effects under current climate with flux-tower-derived GEP trends in situ from four tropical forest sites. Both approaches showed consistent, negative sensitivity of GEP to VPD but little direct response to temperature. Importantly, in the mesocosm at low VPD, GEP persisted up to 38°C, a temperature exceeding projections for tropical forests in 2100 (ref.). If elevated [CO2] mitigates VPD-induced stomatal limitation through enhanced water-use efficiency as hypothesized, tropical forest photosynthesis may have a margin of resilience to future warming.
Thesagro: | Floresta Tropical; Fotossíntese.
Categoria do assunto: | K Ciência Florestal e Produtos de Origem Vegetal
Registro original: | Embrapa Amazônia Oriental (CPATU)
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