To investigate the effects of climate change on canopy transpiration, a process-based carbon and water coupling multi-layer model was verified, and used to simulate the canopy transpiration over a broad-leaved Korean pine forest in Changbai Mountains. This multi-layer model could well estimate canopy transpiration. The simulated values fitted well with the measured data based on eddy covariance method. The simulation of the responses of canopy transpiration to climate change indicated that the latent heat flux (LE) increased with increasing air temperature, and decreased with the decline of soil water content or the increase of air CO2 concentration. Under the climate scenarios in this study, the LE was most sensitive to the associated variation of 10% reduction of soil water content in 0-20 cm layer and 190 micromol x mol(-1) increase of CO2 concentration, but not sensitive to the synchronous variation of 10% reduce of soil water content and 3.6 degrees C increase of air temperature.
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Tree Physiol
December 2024
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 North Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89557, USA.
It has been postulated that stemflow, precipitation that flows from plant crowns down along branches and stems to soils, benefits plants that generate it because it increases plant-available soil water near the base of the plant; however, little direct evidence supports this postulation. Were plants' crowns to preferentially route water to their roots, woody plants with large canopies could benefit. For example, piñon and juniper tree encroachment into sagebrush steppe ecosystems could be facilitated by intercepted precipitation routed to tree roots as stemflow, hypothetically reducing water available for shrubs and grasses.
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December 2024
College of Water Resources and Architecture Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shanxi Province, China.
Terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) is a key variable in the global water cycle, notably affected by climate change and vegetation greening. However, its intrinsic driving modes and the ways through which driving factors influence it remain largely unexplored. Here, we quantified the internal and external drivers behind the spatiotemporal variability of ET across global drylands at seasonal and annual temporal scales and component levels based on pixel-by-pixel partial correlation and ridge regression analyses.
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November 2024
Laboratório de Geoprocessamento,, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília 70910970, Brazil.
The advancement of digital agriculture combined with computational tools and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has opened the way to large-scale data collection for the calculation of vegetation indices (VIs). These vegetation indexes (VIs) are useful for agricultural monitoring, as they highlight the inherent characteristics of vegetation and optimize the spatial and temporal evaluation of different crops. The experiment tested three coffee genotypes (Catuaí 62, E237 and Iapar 59) under five water regimes: (1) FI 100 (year-round irrigation with 100% replacement of evapotranspiration), (2) FI 50 (year-round irrigation with 50% evapotranspiration replacement), (3) WD 100 (no irrigation from June to September (dry season) and, thereafter, 100% evapotranspiration replacement), (4) WD 50 (no irrigation from June to September (water stress) and, thereafter, 50% evapotranspiration replacement) and (5) rainfed (no irrigation during the year).
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November 2024
Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia.
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November 2024
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
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