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Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018 : Energy partitioning in the drought 2018

Graf, Alexander ; Klosterhalfen, Anne ; Arriga, Nicola ; Bernhofer, Christian ; Bogena, Heye ; Bornet, Frédéric ; Brüggemann, Nicolas ; Brümmer, Christian ; Buchmann, Nina and Chi, Jinshu , et al. (2020) In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375(1810).
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Drought and heat events, such as the 2018 European drought, interact with the exchange of energy between the land surface and the atmosphere, potentially affecting albedo, sensible and latent heat fluxes, as well as CO 2 exchange. Each of these quantities may aggravate or mitigate the drought, heat, their side effects on productivity, water scarcity and global warming. We used measurements of 56 eddy covariance sites across Europe to examine the response of fluxes to extreme drought prevailing most of the year 2018 and how the response differed across various ecosystem types (forests, grasslands, croplands and peatlands). Each component of the surface radiation and energy balance observed in 2018 was compared to available data per site... (More)

Drought and heat events, such as the 2018 European drought, interact with the exchange of energy between the land surface and the atmosphere, potentially affecting albedo, sensible and latent heat fluxes, as well as CO 2 exchange. Each of these quantities may aggravate or mitigate the drought, heat, their side effects on productivity, water scarcity and global warming. We used measurements of 56 eddy covariance sites across Europe to examine the response of fluxes to extreme drought prevailing most of the year 2018 and how the response differed across various ecosystem types (forests, grasslands, croplands and peatlands). Each component of the surface radiation and energy balance observed in 2018 was compared to available data per site during a reference period 2004-2017. Based on anomalies in precipitation and reference evapotranspiration, we classified 46 sites as drought affected. These received on average 9% more solar radiation and released 32% more sensible heat to the atmosphere compared to the mean of the reference period. In general, drought decreased net CO 2 uptake by 17.8%, but did not significantly change net evapotranspiration. The response of these fluxes differed characteristically between ecosystems; in particular, the general increase in the evaporative index was strongest in peatlands and weakest in croplands. This article is part of the theme issue 'Impacts of the 2018 severe drought and heatwave in Europe: from site to continental scale'.

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eddy covariance, energy balance, evapotranspiration, heat flux, net carbon uptake, water-use efficiency
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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375
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1810
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20190524
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8 pages
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Royal Society Publishing
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0962-8436
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10.1098/rstb.2019.0524
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Funding Information: Authors thank the funders (grant IDs and particularly concerned authors/sites in parentheses) French National Research Agency ANR (ANR-11-LABX-0002-01, ANR-16-SUMF-0001-01, LabEx ARBRE, M.C.), Alexander von Humbold Stiftung (MaNiP, T.S.E.-M., M.Mi.), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF (01LN1313A, A.G.; ICOS; DE-Geb), German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture BMEL (ERA-NET FACCE ERA-GAS, P.G., F.S., C.Br.), German Research Foundation DFG (BE1721/23, C.Be., T.G., DE-Tha; PAK 346; FOR 1695, A.P., J.I., H.W., DE-EC2, DE-EC4; INST 186/1118-1 FUGG, A.Kn., L.S.), GIP Ecofor SOERE F-ORE-T (M.C.), Finnish Center of Excellence (307331, I.M.), Research Foundation-Flanders FWO (BE-Bra; G0H3317N, B.G.), Hainich National Park (DE-Hai), Helmholtz Association HGF (TERENO; VH-NG-821, T.S.), Horizon 2020 (696356, P.G.), ICOS-FINLAND (281255, I.M.), Kempe Foundation (SMK-1743, J.C.), Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2015.0047, M.P.), Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (DE-Geb), Russian Foundation for Basic Research RFBR (19-04-01234-a, A.V.), Swiss National Science Foundation (ICOS-CH Phase 2 20FI20_173691, M.G., N.Bu.; InnoFarm 407340_172433, N.Bu.), European Commission (SUPER-G, S.G.; RINGO, L.H.; ERA-NET Sumforest No. 606803, M.C.), Service Public de Wallonie (DGO6, 1217769, A.D.L., B.H., B.L., C.V.), SustES (CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000797, L.Š., M.F.), CzeCOS (grant no. LM2015061, L.F., L.Š., M.F., N.K.), Swedish Research Council FORMAS (2016-01289, M.P.; 942-2015-49, J.C.) and University of Padua (CDPA148553, 2014, A.Pi.) Acknowledgements
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  keywords     = {{eddy covariance; energy balance; evapotranspiration; heat flux; net carbon uptake; water-use efficiency}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{10}},
  number       = {{1810}},
  publisher    = {{Royal Society Publishing}},
  series       = {{Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences}},
  title        = {{Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018 : Energy partitioning in the drought 2018}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0524}},
  doi          = {{10.1098/rstb.2019.0524}},
  volume       = {{375}},
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