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NATURE GEOSCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 9, Pages 640-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0208-3
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- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J004723/1, NE/J009822/1, NE/K015966/1]
- EU [641816]
- Philip Leverhulme Prize
- Lancaster University
- NERC [ncas10003, NE/J004723/1, NE/K015966/1, NE/J009822/1, NE/N017951/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Terrestrial vegetation releases large quantities of plant volatiles into the atmosphere that can then oxidize to form secondary organic aerosol. These particles affect plant productivity through the diffuse radiation fertilization effect by altering the balance between direct and diffuse radiation reaching the Earth's surface. Here, using a suite of models describing relevant coupled components of the Earth system, we quantify the impacts of biogenic secondary organic aerosol on plant photosynthesis through this fertilization effect. We show that this leads to a net primary productivity enhancement of 1.23 Pg C yr(-1) (range 0.76-1.61 Pg C yr(-1) due to uncertainty in biogenic secondary organic aerosol formation). Notably, this productivity enhancement is twice the mass of biogenic volatile organic compound emissions (and similar to 30 times larger than the mass of carbon in biogenic secondary organic aerosol) causing it. Hence, our simulations indicate that there is a strong positive ecosystem feedback between biogenic volatile organic compound emissions and plant productivity through plant-canopy light-use efficiency. We estimate a gain of 1.07 in global biogenic volatile organic compound emissions resulting from this feedback.
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