Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world
(2015) In Nature Climate Change 5(5). p.459-464- Abstract
- Stomatal conductance (g(s)) is a key land-surface attribute as it links transpiration, the dominant component of global land evapotranspiration, and photosynthesis, the driving force of the global carbon cycle. Despite the pivotal role of g(s) in predictions of global water and carbon cycle changes, a global-scale database and an associated globally applicable model of g(s) that allow predictions of stomatal behaviour are lacking. Here, we present a database of globally distributed g(s) obtained in the field for a wide range of plant functional types (PFTs) and biomes. We find that stomatal behaviour differs among PFTs according to their marginal carbon cost of water use, as predicted by the theory underpinning the optimal stomatal... (More)
- Stomatal conductance (g(s)) is a key land-surface attribute as it links transpiration, the dominant component of global land evapotranspiration, and photosynthesis, the driving force of the global carbon cycle. Despite the pivotal role of g(s) in predictions of global water and carbon cycle changes, a global-scale database and an associated globally applicable model of g(s) that allow predictions of stomatal behaviour are lacking. Here, we present a database of globally distributed g(s) obtained in the field for a wide range of plant functional types (PFTs) and biomes. We find that stomatal behaviour differs among PFTs according to their marginal carbon cost of water use, as predicted by the theory underpinning the optimal stomatal model(1) and the leaf and wood economics spectrum(2,3). We also demonstrate a global relationship with climate. These findin g(s) provide a robust theoretical framework for understanding and predicting the behaviour of g(s) across biomes and across PFTs that can be applied to regional, continental and global-scale modelling of ecosystem productivity, energy balance and ecohydrological processes in a future changing climate. (Less)
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author = {{Lin, Yan-Shih and Medlyn, Belinda E. and Duursma, Remko A. and Prentice, I. Colin and Wang, Han and Baig, Sofia and Eamus, Derek and Resco de Dios, Victor and Mitchell, Patrick and Ellsworth, David S. and Op de Beeck, Maarten and Wallin, Goran and Uddling, Johan and Tarvainen, Lasse and Linderson, Maj-Lena and Cernusak, Lucas A. and Nippert, Jesse B. and Ocheltree, Troyw. and Tissue, David T. and Martin-St Paul, Nicolas K. and Rogers, Alistair and Warren, Je M. and De Angelis, Paolo and Hikosaka, Kouki and Han, Qingmin and Onoda, Yusuke and Gimeno, Teresa E. and Barton, Craig V. M. and Bennie, Jonathan and Bonal, Damien and Bosc, Alexandre and Loew, Markus and Macinins-Ng, Cate and Rey, Ana and Rowland, Lucy and Setterfield, Samantha A. and Tausz-Posch, Sabine and Zaragoza-Castells, Joana and Broadmeadow, Mark S. J. and Drake, John E. and Freeman, Michael and Ghannoum, Oula and Hutley, Lindsay B. and Kelly, Jeff W. and Kikuzawa, Kihachiro and Kolari, Pasi and Koyama, Kohei and Limousin, Jean-Marc and Meir, Patrick and Lola da Costa, Antonio C. and Mikkelsen, Teis N. and Salinas, Norma and Sun, Wei and Wingate, Lisa}},
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