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Differentiating moss from higher plants is critical in studying the carbon cycle of the boreal biome.

Yuan, Wenping ; Liu, Shuguang ; Dong, Wenjie ; Liang, Shunlin ; Zhao, Shuqing ; Chen, Jingming ; Xu, Wenfang ; Li, Xianglan ; Barr, Alan and Andrew Black, T , et al. (2014) In Nature Communications 5.
Abstract
The satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), which is used for estimating gross primary production (GPP), often includes contributions from both mosses and vascular plants in boreal ecosystems. For the same NDVI, moss can generate only about one-third of the GPP that vascular plants can because of its much lower photosynthetic capacity. Here, based on eddy covariance measurements, we show that the difference in photosynthetic capacity between these two plant functional types has never been explicitly included when estimating regional GPP in the boreal region, resulting in a substantial overestimation. The magnitude of this overestimation could have important implications regarding a change from a current carbon sink... (More)
The satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), which is used for estimating gross primary production (GPP), often includes contributions from both mosses and vascular plants in boreal ecosystems. For the same NDVI, moss can generate only about one-third of the GPP that vascular plants can because of its much lower photosynthetic capacity. Here, based on eddy covariance measurements, we show that the difference in photosynthetic capacity between these two plant functional types has never been explicitly included when estimating regional GPP in the boreal region, resulting in a substantial overestimation. The magnitude of this overestimation could have important implications regarding a change from a current carbon sink to a carbon source in the boreal region. Moss abundance, associated with ecosystem disturbances, needs to be mapped and incorporated into GPP estimates in order to adequately assess the role of the boreal region in the global carbon cycle. (Less)
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5
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4270
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Nature Publishing Group
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2041-1723
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10.1038/ncomms5270
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English
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  abstract     = {{The satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), which is used for estimating gross primary production (GPP), often includes contributions from both mosses and vascular plants in boreal ecosystems. For the same NDVI, moss can generate only about one-third of the GPP that vascular plants can because of its much lower photosynthetic capacity. Here, based on eddy covariance measurements, we show that the difference in photosynthetic capacity between these two plant functional types has never been explicitly included when estimating regional GPP in the boreal region, resulting in a substantial overestimation. The magnitude of this overestimation could have important implications regarding a change from a current carbon sink to a carbon source in the boreal region. Moss abundance, associated with ecosystem disturbances, needs to be mapped and incorporated into GPP estimates in order to adequately assess the role of the boreal region in the global carbon cycle.}},
  author       = {{Yuan, Wenping and Liu, Shuguang and Dong, Wenjie and Liang, Shunlin and Zhao, Shuqing and Chen, Jingming and Xu, Wenfang and Li, Xianglan and Barr, Alan and Andrew Black, T and Yan, Wende and Goulden, Mike L and Kulmala, Liisa and Lindroth, Anders and Margolis, Hank A and Matsuura, Yojiro and Moors, Eddy and van der Molen, Michiel and Ohta, Takeshi and Pilegaard, Kim and Varlagin, Andrej and Vesala, Timo}},
  issn         = {{2041-1723}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Nature Publishing Group}},
  series       = {{Nature Communications}},
  title        = {{Differentiating moss from higher plants is critical in studying the carbon cycle of the boreal biome.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5270}},
  doi          = {{10.1038/ncomms5270}},
  volume       = {{5}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}