Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bonan, Gordon B.
• Oleson, Keith W.
• Fisher, Rosie A.
• Lasslop, Gitta
• Reichstein, Markus

Titel

Reconciling leaf physiological traits and canopy flux data: Use of the TRY and FLUXNET databases in the Community Land Model version 4

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2012-06, Vol.117 (G2), p.n/a

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Blackwell Single Titles

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Community Land Model version 4 overestimates gross primary production (GPP) compared with estimates from FLUXNET eddy covariance towers. The revised model of Bonan et al. (2011) is consistent with FLUXNET, but values for the leaf‐level photosynthetic parameterVcmaxthat yield realistic GPP at the canopy‐scale are lower than observed in the global synthesis of Kattge et al. (2009), except for tropical broadleaf evergreen trees. We investigate this discrepancy betweenVcmaxand canopy fluxes. A multilayer model with explicit calculation of light absorption and photosynthesis for sunlit and shaded leaves at depths in the canopy gives insight to the scale mismatch between leaf and canopy. We evaluate the model with light‐response curves at individual FLUXNET towers and with empirically upscaled annual GPP. Biases in the multilayer canopy with observedVcmaxare similar, or improved, compared with the standard two‐leaf canopy and its lowVcmax, though the Amazon is an exception. The difference relates to light absorption by shaded leaves in the two‐leaf canopy, and resulting higher photosynthesis when the canopy scaling parameterKn is low, but observationally constrained. Larger Kndecreases shaded leaf photosynthesis and reduces the difference between the two‐leaf and multilayer canopies. The low modelVcmaxis diagnosed from nitrogen reduction of GPP in simulations with carbon‐nitrogen biogeochemistry. Our results show that the imposed nitrogen reduction compensates for deficiency in the two‐leaf canopy that produces high GPP. Leaf trait databases (Vcmax), within‐canopy profiles of photosynthetic capacity (Kn), tower fluxes, and empirically upscaled fields provide important complementary information for model evaluation. Key Points CLM overestimates gross primary production Shaded leaf photosynthesis erroneously contributes to high GPP Multi‐scale leaf, canopy, and global data are needed for model evaluation