Journal
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 1809-1822Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15880
Keywords
atmospheric remote sensing; climate extremes; formaldehyde; photosynthesis; stress; vegetation; volatile organic compounds
Funding
- European Research Council [787203]
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
- Belgian Research Action
- European Research Council (ERC) [787203] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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This study highlights the rapid protective response of plants to stress through the emission of short-lived biogenic volatile organic compounds, which is reflected as the largest positive HCHO anomalies in remote sensing data, particularly evident in forested regions.
Accurate monitoring of vegetation stress is required for better modelling and forecasting of primary production, in a world where heatwaves and droughts are expected to become increasingly prevalent. Variability in formaldehyde (HCHO) concentrations in the troposphere is dominated by local emissions of short-lived biogenic (BVOC) and pyrogenic volatile organic compounds. BVOCs are emitted by plants in a rapid protective response to abiotic stress, mediated by the energetic status of leaves (the excess of reducing power when photosynthetic light and dark reactions are decoupled, as occurs when stomata close in response to water stress). Emissions also increase exponentially with leaf temperature. New analytical methods for the detection of spatiotemporally contiguous extremes in remote-sensing data are applied here to satellite-derived atmospheric HCHO columns. BVOC emissions are shown to play a central role in the formation of the largest positive HCHO anomalies. Although vegetation stress can be captured by various remotely sensed quantities, spaceborne HCHO emerges as the most consistent recorder of vegetation responses to the largest climate extremes, especially in forested regions.
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