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Nutrient availability and climate as the main determinants of the ratio of biomass to NPP in woody and non-woody forest compartments
Fernández-Martínez, Marcos (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Vicca, Sara (Universiteit Antwerpen. Departement Biologie)
Janssens, Ivan (Universiteit Antwerpen. Departement Biologie)
Campioli, Matteo (Universiteit Antwerpen. Departement Biologie)
Peñuelas, Josep (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia)

Fecha: 2016
Resumen: Key message: Once the effect of stand age has been taken into account, nutrient availability and climate play a crucial role in determining the B:NPPs of woody and non-woody tissues. - Abstract: Forest ecosystems accumulate large amounts of carbon in living tissues. The residence time of this carbon in the ecosystem depends largely on the turnover time of these tissues, which can be estimated as a surrogate of the ratio of biomass to net primary production (B:NPP). We used a global forest database of 310 sites containing data for biomass stocks and NPP to investigate the differences of B:NPPs among species and forest compartments and to determine B:NPPs main exogenous (mainly climate and nutrient availability) and endogenous (leaf habit and stand age) drivers. We used asymptotic exponential functions to adjust the B:NPPs of woody compartments to a theoretical stationary state to allow comparisons between forests of different ages. The B:NPPs of woody tissues (branches, stems, and coarse roots) were positively influenced by stand age, conversely to fine roots and leaves, which were weakly dependent on the age of the forest. The B:NPPs of woody tissues were positively correlated with nutrient availability, whereas fine-root B:NPPs decreased with increasing nutrient availability. The foliar B:NPP of evergreen forests was positively correlated with water deficit, and the fine-root B:NPP was correlated positively with the seasonality of precipitation and with annual thermal amplitude but negatively with water deficit. Our results support the influence of climate on the B:NPPs of non-woody compartments and identify nutrient availability as the main influence on the B:NPPs of woody tissues.
Ayudas: European Commission 610028
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CGL2013-48074-P
Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014/SGR-274
Derechos: Tots els drets reservats.
Lengua: Anglès
Documento: Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Materia: Turnover ; Residence time ; Nutrient availability ; Climate ; Stationary state ; Carbon sequestration
Publicado en: Trees, structure and function, Vol. 30, issue 3 (June 2016) , p. 775-783, ISSN 0931-1890

DOI: 10.1007/s00468-015-1319-8


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