Tradeoffs and synergies in tropical forest root traits and dynamics for nutrient and water acquisition: field and modeling advances

DF Cusack, SD Addo-Danso, EA Agee… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Vegetation processes are fundamentally limited by nutrient and water availability, the uptake
of which is mediated by plant roots in terrestrial ecosystems. While tropical forests play a …

Terrestrial photosynthesis inferred from plant carbonyl sulfide uptake

J Lai, LMJ Kooijmans, W Sun, D Lombardozzi… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Terrestrial photosynthesis, or gross primary production (GPP), is the largest carbon flux in
the biosphere, but its global magnitude and spatiotemporal dynamics remain uncertain. The …

Quantifying and reducing uncertainty in global carbon cycle predictions: Lessons and perspectives from 15 years of data assimilation studies with the ORCHIDEE …

N MacBean, C Bacour, N Raoult… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting terrestrial carbon, C, budgets and carbon‐climate feedbacks strongly relies on
our ability to accurately model interactions between vegetation, C and water cycles, and the …

Carbon offsets aren't helping the planet—four ways to fix them

PW Boyd, L Bach, R Holden, C Turney - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Carbon offsets aren’t helping the planet — four ways to fix them Skip to main content Thank you
for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain …

Environment-sensitivity functions for gross primary productivity in light use efficiency models

S Bao, T Wutzler, S Koirala, M Cuntz, A Ibrom… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
The sensitivity of photosynthesis to environmental changes is essential for understanding
carbon cycle responses to global climate change and for the development of modeling …

Designing an Observing System to Study the Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) of the Earth in the 2020s

EN Stavros, J Chrone… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Observations of planet Earth from space are a critical resource for science and society.
Satellite measurements represent very large investments and United States (US) agencies …

No constraint on long-term tropical land carbon-climate feedback uncertainties from interannual variability

L Liu, RA Fisher, H Douville, RS Padrón… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Unraveling drivers of the interannual variability of tropical land carbon cycle is critical for
understanding land carbon-climate feedbacks. Here we utilize two generations of factorial …

Emergent constraints on tropical atmospheric aridity—carbon feedbacks and the future of carbon sequestration

A Barkhordarian, KW Bowman, N Cressie… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Carbon-climate feedbacks, which amplifies or attenuates atmospheric CO 2 from fossil fuel
emissions, are one of the largest sources of uncertainty in climate projections. However …

An improved canopy interception scheme into biogeochemical model for precise simulation of carbon and water fluxes in subtropical coniferous forest

F Zhao, J Wang, H Shang, L Xia, Q Gao - Agricultural and Forest …, 2024 - Elsevier
The process-based Biome-BGC (Biome Biogeochemical Cycles) model is widely used to
simulate the fluxes of carbon and water of terrestrial ecosystems. While exhibiting excellent …

Plant–soil interactions and nutrient cycling dynamics in tropical rainforests

S Zhao, M Riaz - Environment, Climate, Plant and Vegetation Growth, 2024 - Springer
Tropical rainforest's ecosystem's stability, fertility of the soil, and sustainability depend on
understanding plant–soil interactions. Soil biota which includes plants and microbes …