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Relationships Between Vegetation Carbon Use Efficiency and Climatic Factors on the Tibetan Plateau

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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 16-26

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2016.1131115

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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Leading Science and Technology Projects [XDB05030400, XDB03030401, XDA05060700]
  2. National Science and Technology Plan Project of China [2011BAC09B03]
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41171084]
  4. Chinese Academy of Science Western Light Talents Program
  5. Natural Science Foundation of Tibet Autonomous Region
  6. Science and Technology Plan Projects of Tibet Autonomous Region (Forage Grass Industry)

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Temperature, water, and sunshine conditions affect vegetation efficiency in terms of carbon gain. Responses of annual carbon use efficiency (CUE; i.e., the ratio of net primary production to gross primary production) to annual temperature, precipitation, vapor pressure, relative humidity, and sunshine were examined from 2000 to 2012 on the Tibetan Plateau. The response magnitudes of CUE to climatic factors varied with vegetation types, and might be related to changed climates with vegetation types. Spatially averaged CUE increased with increasing temperature and vapor pressure deficit, but decreased with actual vapor pressure and relative humidity. The vapor pressure deficit had the strongest effect on spatially averaged CUE. Specifically, air humidity conditions dominated the interannual variation of spatially averaged CUE. Warming and drying climatic changes will likely be conductive to an increased vegetation carbon storage efficiency of the Tibetan Plateau.Resume. Les conditions de temperature, d'eau, et d'ensoleillement affectent l'efficacite de la vegetation en matiere de gain de carbone. Les reponses de l'efficacite de l'utilisation de carbone annuelle (CUE; soit, le rapport de la production primaire nette a la production primaire brute) en fonction de la temperature annuelle, des precipitations, de la pression de vapeur, de l'humidite relative, et de l'ensoleillement ont ete examinees de 2000 a 2012 sur le plateau tibetain. Les amplitudes des reponses de la CUE aux facteurs climatiques ont varie selon les types de vegetation, qui peuvent etre lies aux changements de climats avec des types de vegetation. La CUE moyenne spatiale a augmente avec l'augmentation de la temperature et du deficit de pression de vapeur, mais a diminue avec la pression de vapeur et l'humidite relative. Le deficit de pression de vapeur a eu le plus fort effet sur la CUE moyenne spatiale. Plus precisement, les conditions d'humidite de l'air ont domine la variation interannuelle de la CUE moyenne spatiale. Le rechauffement et l'assechement cause par les changements climatiques ameneront probablement une augmentation de l'efficacite du stockage de carbone pour la vegetation du plateau tibetain.

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