High-latitude vegetation changes will determine future plant volatile impacts on atmospheric organic aerosols
(2023) In npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 6(1).- Abstract
Strong, ongoing high-latitude warming is causing changes to vegetation composition and plant productivity, modifying plant emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). In the sparsely populated high latitudes with clean background air, climate feedback resulting from BVOCs as precursors of atmospheric aerosols could be more important than elsewhere on the globe. Here, we quantitatively assess changes in vegetation composition, BVOC emissions, and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation under different climate scenarios. We show that warming-induced vegetation changes largely determine the spatial patterns of future BVOC impacts on SOA. The northward advances of boreal needle-leaved woody species result in increased SOA... (More)
Strong, ongoing high-latitude warming is causing changes to vegetation composition and plant productivity, modifying plant emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). In the sparsely populated high latitudes with clean background air, climate feedback resulting from BVOCs as precursors of atmospheric aerosols could be more important than elsewhere on the globe. Here, we quantitatively assess changes in vegetation composition, BVOC emissions, and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation under different climate scenarios. We show that warming-induced vegetation changes largely determine the spatial patterns of future BVOC impacts on SOA. The northward advances of boreal needle-leaved woody species result in increased SOA optical depth by up to 41%, causing cooling feedback. However, areas with temperate broad-leaved trees replacing boreal needle-leaved trees likely experience a large decline in monoterpene emissions and SOA formation, causing warming feedback. We highlight the necessity of considering warming-induced vegetation shifts when assessing land radiative feedback on climate following the BVOC-SOA pathway.
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- author
- Tang, Jing LU ; Zhou, Putian ; Miller, Paul A. LU ; Schurgers, Guy ; Gustafson, Adrian LU ; Makkonen, Risto ; Fu, Yongshuo H. and Rinnan, Riikka
- organization
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- LTH Profile Area: Aerosols
- Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
- MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
- LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
- Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
- publishing date
- 2023-12
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
- volume
- 6
- issue
- 1
- article number
- 147
- publisher
- Springer Nature
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85171878778
- ISSN
- 2397-3722
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41612-023-00463-7
- project
- MERGE SP: Plant BVOCs Regulated Feedbacks to the Changing Climate
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- d7ae655a-627b-4bbb-a116-5f0c1f72cd1d
- date added to LUP
- 2023-12-05 15:03:04
- date last changed
- 2024-06-13 15:57:45
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