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Plant respiration constitutes a massive carbon flux to the atmosphere, and a major control on the evolution of the global carbon cycle. It therefore has the potential to modulate levels of climate change due to the human burning of fossil fuels. Neither current physiological nor terrestrial biosphere models adequately describe its short-term tem-perature response, and even minor differences in the shape of the response curve can significantly impact estimates of ecosystem carbon release and/or storage. Given this, it is critical to establish whether there are predictable patterns in the shape of the respiration–temper-ature response curve, and thus in the intrinsic temperature sensitivity of respiration across the globe. Analyzing measurements in a compre-hensive database for 231 species spanning 7 biomes, we demonstrate that temperature-dependent increases in leaf respiration do not follow a commonly used exponential function. Instead, we find a decelerating function as leaves warm, reflecting a declining sensitivity to higher temperatures that is remarkably uniform across all biomes and plant functional types. Such convergence in the temperature sensitivity of leaf respiration suggests that there are universally applicable controls on the temperature response of plant energy metabolism, such that a single new function can predict the temperature dependence of leaf respiration for global vegetation. This simple function enables straight-forward description of plant respiration in the land-surface compo-nents of coupled earth system models. Our cross-biome analyses shows significant implications for such fluxes in cold climates, gener-ally projecting lower values compared with previous estimates. temperature sensitivity | climate models | carbon exchange | Q 10 |
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Auteurs Mary A Heskel , Odhran S O 'sullivan , Peter B Reich , Mark G Tjoelker , Lasantha K Weerasinghe , Aurore Penillard , John J G Egerton , Danielle Creek , Keith J Bloomfield , Jen Xiang , Felipe Sinca , Zsofia R Stangl , Alberto Martinez-De La Torre , Kevin L Griffin , Chris Huntingford , Vaughan Hurry , Patrick Meir , Matthew H Turnbull , Owen K Atkin
Publication : Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Date : 2025
Volume : 113
Issue : 14
Pages : 3832–3837
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Gravitropic movements in angiosperm woody stems are achieved through the action of bark and/or wood motor, depending on the bark and wood fibre anatomy (with trellis structure or not; with G-layers or not). Bark motor is as efficient as wood motor to recover from tilting in young trees of 21 tropical species.
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Auteurs Barbara Ghislain , Tancrède Alméras , Jonathan Prunier , Bruno Clair
Publication : Annals of Forest Science
Date : 2019
Volume : 76
Issue : 4
Pages : 107
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Auteurs Christopher Baraloto , Bruno Hérault , C. E. Timothy Paine , Hélène Massot , Lilian Blanc , Damien Bonal , Jean-François Molino , Eric A. Nicolini , Daniel Sabatier
Publication : Journal of Applied Ecology
Date : 2012
Volume : 49
Issue : 4
Pages : 861–870
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Methods Fine root growth and mortality of Eucalyptus grandis trees were observed fortnightly using minirhizotrons down to a soil depth of 6 m, from 2 to 4 years after planting.
Results In the topsoil, the highest live root length production was during the rainy summer (20 cm m−2 d−1) whereas, below 2 m deep, it was at the end of the dry winter (51 cm m−2 d−1). The maximum root elongation rates increased with soil depth to 3.6 cm d−1 in the 5–6 m soil layer.
Conclusions Our study shows that the effect of the soil depth on the seasonal variations in fine root growth should be taken into account when modelling the carbon, water and nutrient cycles in forests growing on deep tropical soils.
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Auteurs George Rodrigues Lambais , Christophe Jourdan , Marisa de Cássia Piccolo , Amandine Germon , Rafael Costa Pinheiro , Yann Nouvellon , José Luiz Stape , Otávio Camargo Campoe , Agnès Robin , Jean-Pierre Bouillet , Guerric le Maire , Jean-Paul Laclau
Publication : Plant and Soil
Date : 2025
Volume : 421
Issue : 1-2
Pages : 301-318
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#CIRAD #FORET Itatinga #FORET Rubberflux #INRAERésumé
Method Fine roots (diameter < 2 mm) were sampled in a randomized block design with three treatments: monospecific stands of Acacia mangium (100A), Eucalyptus grandis (100E), and mixed stands with 50% of each species (50A50E). Root ingrowth bags were installed at 4 depths (from 0.1 m to 6 m) in the three treatments within three different blocks, to study the fine-root production over 2 periods of 3 months. Results Down to 17 m depth, total fine-root biomass was 1127 g m−2 in 50A50E, 780 g m−2 in 100A and 714 g m−2 in 100E. Specific root length and specific root area were 110–150% higher in 50A50E than in 100A for Acacia mangium trees and 34% higher in 50A50E than in 100E for Eucalyptus grandis trees. Ingrowth bags showed that the capacity of fine roots to explore soil patches did not decrease down to a depth of 6 m for the two species. Conclusions Belowground interactions between Acacia mangium and Eucalyptus grandis trees greatly increased the exploration of very deep soil layers by fine roots, which is likely to enhance the uptake of soil resources. Mixing tree species might therefore increase the resilience of tropical planted forests through a better exploration of deep soils.
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Auteurs Amandine Germon , Iraê Amaral Guerrini , Bruno Bordron , Jean-Pierre Bouillet , Yann Nouvellon , José Leonardo de Moraes Gonçalves , Christophe Jourdan , Ranieri Ribeiro Paula , Jean-Paul Laclau
Publication : Plant and Soil
Date : 2017
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#CIRAD #FORET Itatinga #FORET Rubberflux #INRAEAuteurs, date et publication :
Auteurs Dan Binkley , Mark Adams , Todd Fredericksen , Jean Paul Laclau , Harri Mäkinen , Cindy Prescott
Publication : Forest Ecology and Management
Date : 2025
Volume : 410
Pages : 157-163
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#CIRAD #FORET Itatinga #INRAEAuteurs, date et publication :
Auteurs Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert , Timothy R. Baker , Kyle G. Dexter , Simon L. Lewis , Roel J. W. Brienen , Ted R. Feldpausch , Jon Lloyd , Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza , Luzmila Arroyo , Esteban Álvarez-Dávila , Niro Higuchi , Beatriz S. Marimon , Ben Hur Marimon-Junior , Marcos Silveira , Emilio Vilanova , Emanuel Gloor , Yadvinder Malhi , Jerôme Chave , Jos Barlow , Damien Bonal
Publication : Global Change Biology
Date : 2018
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#CIRAD #FORET ParacouRésumé
Global environmental change necessitates increased predictive capacity; for forests, recent advances in technology provide the response to this challenge. “Next‐generation” remote‐sensing instruments can measure forest biogeochemistry and structural change, and individual‐based models can predict the fates of vast numbers of simulated trees, all growing and competing according to their ecological attributes in altered environments across large areas. Application of these models at continental scales is now feasible using current computing power. The results obtained from individual‐based models are testable against remotely sensed data, and so can be used to predict changes in forests at plot, landscape, and regional scales. This model–data comparison allows the detailed prediction, observation, and testing of forest ecosystem changes at very large scales and under novel environmental conditions, a capability that is greatly needed in this time of potentially massive ecological change.
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Auteurs Herman H Shugart , Gregory P Asner , Rico Fischer , Andreas Huth , Nikolai Knapp , Thuy Le Toan , Jacquelyn K Shuman
Publication : Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Date : 2015
Volume : 13
Issue : 9
Pages : 503–511
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#CIRAD #FORET ParacouRésumé
The structure of forests is an important indicator of ecosystem dynamics and enables the modeling and monitoring of ecological change. Synthetic aperture radar tomography (TomoSAR) provides scene reflectivity estimation of vegetation along elevation coordinates. Due to the advantages of superresolution imaging and a small number of measurements, compressive sensing (CS) inversion techniques for SAR tomography were successfully developed and applied. This paper addresses the 3-D imaging of forested areas based on the framework of CS using fully polarimetric (FP) multibaseline SAR interferometric (MB-InSAR) tomography at P-band. A new CS-based FP MB-InSAR tomography method is proposed: a sum of Kronecker product (SKP) decomposition-based CS FP MB-InSAR tomography method (FP-SKPCS TomoSAR method). The method, based on an assumption that the reflectivity signal of a single scattering mechanism (SM) is more sparse than that of a composite of SMs, recovers the reflectivity profile of different SMs by using the CS technique. This method not only allows superresolution imaging with a low number of acquisitions but also can estimate the polarimetric SM of the vertical structure of forested areas. The effectiveness of these novel techniques for polarimetric SAR tomography is demonstrated using FP P-band airborne data sets acquired by the ONERA SETHI airborne system over a test site in Paracou, French Guiana, and the results of the vertical structure of forested areas derived by the method are verified by in situ test data.
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Auteurs Xinwu Li , Lei Liang , Huadong Guo , Yue Huang
Publication : IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Date : 2016
Volume : 54
Issue : 1
Pages : 153–166
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#CIRAD #FORET ParacouRésumé
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Auteurs J. C. Roggy , H. Schimann , D. Sabatier , J. F. Molino , V. Freycon , Anne-Marie Domenach
Publication : International Scholarly Research Notices
Date : 2014
Volume : 2014
Pages : 1–6