Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

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Wagner, Fabien H. ^[1] ; Herault, Bruno ^[2] ; Bonal, Damien ^[3] ; Stahl, Clement ^{[4, 5]} ; Anderson, Liana O. ^[6] ; Baker, Timothy R. ^[7] ; Becker, Gabriel Sebastian ^[8] ; Beeckman, Hans ^[9] ; Souza, Danilo Boanerges ^[10] ; Botosso, Paulo Cesar ^[11] ; Bowman, David M. J. S. ^[12] ; Braeuning, Achim ^[13] ; Brede, Benjamin ^[14] ; Brown, Foster Irving ^[15] ; Julio Camarero, Jesus ^{[16, 17]} ; Camargo, Plnio Barbosa ^[18] ; Cardoso, Fernanda C. G. ^[19] ; Carvalho, Fabricio Alvim ^[20] ; Castro, Wendeson ^[21] ; Chagas, Rubens Koloski ^[22] ; Chave, Jerome ^{[23, 24]} ; Chidumayo, Emmanuel N. ^[25] ; Clark, Deborah A. ^[26] ; Capellotto Costa, Flavia Regina ^[27] ; Couralet, Camille ^[9] ; da Silva Mauricio, Paulo Henrique ^[15] ; Dalitz, Helmut ^[8] ; de Castro, Vinicius Resende ^[28] ; de Freitas Milani, Jaanan Eloisa ^[29] ; de Oliveira, Edilson Consuelo ^[30] ; Arruda, Luciano de Souza ^[31] ; Devineau, Jean-Louis ^{[32, 33]} ; Drew, David M. ^[34] ; Duenisch, Oliver ^[35] ; Durigan, Giselda ^[36] ; Elifuraha, Elisha ^[37] ; Fedele, Marcio ^[38] ; Fedele, Ligia Ferreira ^[38] ; Figueiredo Filho, Afonso ^[39] ; Guimaraes Finger, Cesar Augusto ^[40] ; Franco, Augusto Cesar ^[41] ; Freitas Junior, Joao Lima ^[21] ; Galvao, Franklin ^[29] ; Gebrekirstos, Aster ^[42] ; Gliniars, Robert ^[8] ; Lima de Alencastro Graca, Paulo Maurcio ^[43] ; Griffiths, Anthony D. ^{[44, 45]} ; Grogan, James ^[46] ; Guan, Kaiyu ^{[47, 48]} ; Homeier, Jurgen ^[49] ; Kanieski, Maria Raquel ^[50] ; Kho, Lip Khoon ^[51] ; Koenig, Jennifer ^[44] ; Kohler, Sintia Valerio ^[39] ; Krepkowski, Julia ^[13] ; Lemos-Filho, Jose Pires ^[52] ; Lieberman, Diana ^[53] ; Lieberman, Milton Eugene ^[53] ; Lisi, Claudio Sergio ^{[38, 54]} ; Santos, Tomaz Longhi ^[29] ; Lopez Ayala, Jose Luis ^[55] ; Maeda, Eduardo Eijji ^[56] ; Malhi, Yadvinder ^[57] ; Maria, Vivian R. B. ^[38] ; Marques, Marcia C. M. ^[19] ; Marques, Renato ^[58] ; Maza Chamba, Hector ^[59] ; Mbwambo, Lawrence ^[60] ; Lisboa Melgaco, Karina Liana ^[27] ; Angela Mendivelso, Hooz ^[16] ; Murphy, Brett P. ^[44] ; O'Brien, Joseph J. ^[61] ; Oberbauer, Steven F. ^[62] ; Okada, Naoki ^[63] ; Pelissier, Raphael ^{[64, 65]} ; Prior, Lynda D. ^[12] ; Alejandro Roig, Fidel ^[66] ; Ross, Michael ^[67] ; Rossatto, Davi Rodrigo ^[68] ; Rossi, Vivien ^[69] ; Rowland, Lucy ^[70] ; Rutishauser, Ervan ^[71] ; Santana, Hellen ^[27] ; Schulze, Mark ^[72] ; Selhorst, Diogo ^[73] ; Silva, Williamar Rodrigues ^[74] ; Silveira, Marcos ^[15] ; Spannl, Susanne ^[13] ; Swaine, Michael D. ^[75] ; Toledo, Jose Julio ^[76] ; Toledo, Marcos Miranda ^[77] ; Toledo, Marisol ^[78] ; Toma, Takeshi ^[79] ; Tomazello Filho, Mario ^[38] ; Valdez Hernandez, Juan Ignacio ^[55] ; Verbesselt, Jan ^[14] ; Vieira, Simone Aparecida ^[80] ; Vincent, Gregoire ^[64] ; de Castilho, Carolina Volkmer ^[81] ; Volland, Franziska ^[13] ; Worbes, Martin ^[82] ; Bolzan Zanon, Magda Lea ^[83] ; Aragao, Luiz E. O. C. ^{[1, 84]}

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^[1] Natl Inst Space Res INPE, Remote Sensing Div, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP - Brazil

^[2] CIRAD, UMR Ecol Forets Guyane, F-97379 Kourou - France

^[3] INRA, UMR EEF 1137, F-54280 Champenoux - France

^[4] Univ Antwerp, Dept Biol, B-2610 Antwerp - Belgium

^[5] INRA, UMR Ecol Forets Guyane, F-97387 Kourou - France

^[6] Natl Ctr Monitoring & Early Warning Nat Disasters, BR-12247016 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP - Brazil

^[7] Univ Leeds, Sch Geog, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire - England

^[8] Univ Hohenheim, Inst Bot, D-70593 Stuttgart - Germany

^[9] Royal Museum Cent Africa, Lab Wood Biol & Xylarium, B-3080 Tervuren - Belgium

^[10] Inst Nacl de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Programa Posgrad Ciencias Florestas Tropi, BR-69067375 Manaus, Amazonas - Brazil

^[11] Brazilian Agr Res Corp, Embrapa Florestas, BR-83411000 Colombo, PR - Brazil

^[12] Univ Tasmania, Sch Biol Sci, Hobart, Tas 7001 - Australia

^[13] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Inst Geog, D-91058 Erlangen - Germany

^[14] Wageningen Univ, Lab Geoinformat Sci & Remote Sensing, NL-6708 PB Wageningen - Netherlands

^[15] Univ Fed Do Acre, Lab Bot & Ecol Vegetal, Ctr Ciencias Biol & Nat, BR-69915559 Rio Branco, AC - Brazil

^[16] IPE CSIC, Zaragoza 50059 - Spain

^[17] IBIF, Santa Cruz 6204 - Bolivia

^[18] Univ Sao Paulo, Lab Ecol Isotop, Ctr Energia Nucl Agr, BR-13416903 Piracicaba, SP - Brazil

^[19] Univ Fed Parana, Dept Bot, BR-81531980 Curitiba, PR - Brazil

^[20] Univ Fed Juiz de Fora, Dept Bot, BR-36015260 Juiz de Fora, MG - Brazil

^[21] Univ Fed Acre, Programa Posgrad Ecol & Manejo Recursos Nat, BR-69915559 Rio Branco, AC - Brazil

^[22] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Biociencias, Dept Ecol, BR-05508090 Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil

^[23] CNRS, UMR Lab Evolut & Divers Biol 5174, F-31062 Toulouse - France

^[24] Univ Paul Sabatier, F-31062 Toulouse - France

^[25] Univ Zambia, Biol Sci Dept, Box 32379, Lusaka - Zambia

^[26] Univ Missouri, Dept Biol, St Louis, MO 63121 - USA

^[27] Inst Nacl de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Coordenacao Pesquisas Biodiversidade, BR-69080971 Manaus, Amazonas - Brazil

^[28] Univ Fed Vicosa, Dept Engn Florestal, BR-36570000 Vicosa, MG - Brazil

^[29] Univ Fed Parana, Dept Engn Florestal, BR-80210170 Curitiba, PR - Brazil

^[30] Univ Fed Acre, Lab Bot & Ecol Vegetal, Ctr Ciecias Biol & Nat, BR-69915559 Rio Branco, AC - Brazil

^[31] Prefeitura Municipal Rio Branco, BR-69900901 Rio Branco, AC - Brazil

^[32] CNRS, Dept Hommes, Nat, Societes, F-75231 Paris 5 - France

^[33] UMR 208 Patrimoines Locaux & Gouvernance, F-75231 Paris 5 - France

^[34] Univ Stellenbosch, Dept Forest & Wood Sci, ZA-7600 Stellenbosch - South Africa

^[35] Meisterschule Ebern Schreinerhandwerk, D-96106 Ebern - Germany

^[36] Floresta Estadual Assis, BR-19802970 Assis, SP - Brazil

^[37] Tanzania Forestry Res Inst TAFORI, POB 1576, Dodoma - Tanzania

^[38] Univ Sao Paulo, Escola Super Agr Luiz Queiroz, Dept Ciencias Florestais, BR-13418900 Piracicaba, SP - Brazil

^[39] Univ Estadual, Ctr Oeste, DEF, BR-84500000 Irati, PR - Brazil

^[40] Univ Fed Santa Maria, Ctr Ciencias Rurais, Dept Ciencias Florestais, BR-97105900 Santa Maria, RS - Brazil

^[41] Univ Brasilia, Lab Fisiol Vegetal, Inst Ciencias Biol, Dept Bot, BR-70904970 Brasilia, DF - Brazil

^[42] World Agroforestry Ctr ICRAF, POB 30677-00100, Nairobi - Kenya

^[43] Inst Nacl de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Coordenacao Pesquisa Ecol, BR-47869011 Manaus, Amazonas - Brazil

^[44] Charles Darwin Univ, Res Inst Environm & Livelihoods, Darwin, NT 0909 - Australia

^[45] Northern Terr Govt, Dept Land Resource Management, Palmerston, NT 0831 - Australia

^[46] Mt Holyoke Coll, Dept Biol Sci, S Hadley, MA 01075 - USA

^[47] Stanford Univ, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 - USA

^[48] Univ Illinois, Dept Nat Resources & Environm Sci, Champaign, IL 61801 - USA

^[49] Univ Gottingen, Albrecht von Haller Inst Plant Sci, Dept Plant Ecol, D-37073 Gottingen - Germany

^[50] Univ Estado Santa Catarina UDESC, Dept Engn Florestal, BR-88520000 Lages, SC - Brazil

^[51] Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Biol Res Div, Trop Peat Res Inst, Selangor 43000 - Malaysia

^[52] Univ Fed Minas Gerais, Inst Ciencias Biol, Dept Bot, BR-31270901 Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil

^[53] Calif State Univ Monterey Bay, Div Sci & Environm Policy, Seaside, CA 93955 - USA

^[54] Univ Fed Sergipe, Dept Biol, BR-49100000 Sao Cristovao - Brazil

^[55] Colegio Postgrad, Programa Forestal, Montecillo 56230 - Mexico

^[56] Univ Helsinki, Dept Geosci & Geog, FIN-00014 Helsinki - Finland

^[57] Univ Oxford, Sch Geog & Environm, Oxford OX1 3QY - England

^[58] Univ Fed Parana, Dept Solos & Engn Agricola, BR-80035050 Curitiba, PR - Brazil

^[59] Univ Nacl Loja, Lab Dendrochronol & Anat Maderas Espinoza, EC110103, Loja - Ecuador

^[60] Tanzania Forestry Res Inst TAFORI, POB 1854, Morogoro - Tanzania

^[61] Forest Serv, Ctr Forest Disturbance Sci, USDA, Athens, GA 30607 - USA

^[62] Florida Int Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Miami, FL 33199 - USA

^[63] Kyoto Univ, Grad Sch Agr, Kyoto 6068501 - Japan

^[64] IRD, UMR AMAP botAn & BioinforMat Architecture Plantes, F-34398 Montpellier - France

^[65] Inst Francais Pondicherry, Pondicherry 6005001 - India

^[66] Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, Inst Argentino Nivol Glaciol & Ciencias Ambiental, Tree Ring & Environm Hist Lab, RA-5500 Mendoza - Argentina

^[67] Florida Int Univ, Dept Earth & Environm, Southeast Environm Res Ctr, Miami, FL 33199 - USA

^[68] Univ Estadual Paulista, UNESP, FCAV, Dept Biol Aplicada, BR-14884000 Jaboticabal, SP - Brazil

^[69] CIRAD, UR B&SEF, Biens & Serv Ecosyst Forestiers Tropicaux, BP 2572, Yaounde - Cameroon

^[70] Univ Edinburgh, Sch Geosci, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, Midlothian - Scotland

^[71] CarboForExpert, CH-1211 Geneva - Switzerland

^[72] Oregon State Univ, HJ Andrews Expt Forest, Blue, OR 97413 - USA

^[73] Ibama, BR-69907150 Rio Branco, AC - Brazil

^[74] Univ Fed Roraima UFRR, PRONAT Programa Posgrad Recurso Nat, BR-69310000 Boa Vista, RR - Brazil

^[75] Univ Aberdeen, Sch Biol Sci, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ - Scotland

^[76] Univ Fed Amapa, Dept Ciencias Ambientais, BR-68902280 Macapa, AP - Brazil

^[77] Embrapa Cocais, Brazilian Agr Res Corp, BR-65066190 Sao Luis, MA - Brazil

^[78] Univ Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, IBIF, Santa Cruz 6201, CA - Bolivia

^[79] FFPRI, Dept Forest Vegetat, Ibaraki 3058687 - Japan

^[80] Univ Estadual Campinas UNICAMP, Nuc Estudos Pesquisas Ambientais NEPAM, BR-13083867 Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[81] Embrapa Roraima, Brazilian Agr Res Corp, BR-69301970 Boa Vista, RR - Brazil

^[82] Univ Gottingen, Crop Prod Syst Trop, D-37077 Gottingen - Germany

^[83] Univ Fed Santa Maria, Ctr Educ Super Norte, Dept Engn Florestal, BR-98400000 Frederico Westphalen, RS - Brazil

^[84] Univ Exeter, Coll Life & Environm Sci, Exeter EX4 4RJ, Devon - England

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: BIOGEOSCIENCES; v. 13, n. 8, p. 2537-2562, 2016.
• Web of Science Citations: 38

Abstract

The seasonal climate drivers of the carbon cycle in tropical forests remain poorly known, although these forests account for more carbon assimilation and storage than any other terrestrial ecosystem. Based on a unique combination of seasonal pan-tropical data sets from 89 experimental sites (68 include aboveground wood productivity measurements and 35 litter productivity measurements), their associated canopy photosynthetic capacity (enhanced vegetation index, EVI) and climate, we ask how carbon assimilation and aboveground allocation are related to climate seasonality in tropical forests and how they interact in the seasonal carbon cycle. We found that canopy photosynthetic capacity seasonality responds positively to precipitation when rainfall is < 2000 mm yr(-1) (water-limited forests) and to radiation otherwise (light-limited forests). On the other hand, independent of climate limitations, wood productivity and litterfall are driven by seasonal variation in precipitation and evapotranspiration, respectively. Consequently, light-limited forests present an asynchronism between canopy photosynthetic capacity and wood productivity. First-order control by precipitation likely indicates a decrease in tropical forest productivity in a drier climate in water-limited forest, and in current light-limited forest with future rainfall < 2000 mm yr(-1). (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/14520-6 - Quantifying and modelling the seasonality of pantropical forest net primary production using field observations and remote sensing data
• Grantee: Fabien Hubert Wagner
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral