期刊
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
卷 22, 期 5, 页码 1690-1709出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13226
关键词
biomass; carbon cycle; net ecosystem exchange; productivity; regeneration; secondary; tropical forest
资金
- DOE [DE-SC0008085, DE-SC0010039]
- Smithsonian Women's Committee grant
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0008085, DE-SC0010039] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Tropical forests play a critical role in the global carbon (C) cycle, storing similar to 45% of terrestrial C and constituting the largest component of the terrestrial C sink. Despite their central importance to the global C cycle, their ecosystem-level C cycles are not as well-characterized as those of extra-tropical forests, and knowledge gaps hamper efforts to quantify C budgets across the tropics and to model tropical forest-climate interactions. To advance understanding of C dynamics of pantropical forests, we compiled a new database, the Tropical Forest C database (TropForC-db), which contains data on ground-based measurements of ecosystem-level C stocks and annual fluxes along with disturbance history. This database currently contains 3568 records from 845 plots in 178 geographically distinct areas, making it the largest and most comprehensive database of its type. Using TropForC-db, we characterized C stocks and fluxes for young, intermediate-aged, and mature forests. Relative to existing C budgets of extra-tropical forests, mature tropical broadleaf evergreen forests had substantially higher gross primary productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (R-eco), their autotropic respiration (R-a) consumed a larger proportion (similar to 67%) of GPP, and their woody stem growth (ANPP(stem)) represented a smaller proportion of net primary productivity (NPP, similar to 32%) or GPP (similar to 9%). In regrowth stands, aboveground biomass increased rapidly during the first 20years following stand-clearing disturbance, with slower accumulation following agriculture and in deciduous forests, and continued to accumulate at a slower pace in forests aged 20-100years. Most other C stocks likewise increased with stand age, while potential to describe age trends in C fluxes was generally data-limited. We expect that TropForC-db will prove useful for model evaluation and for quantifying the contribution of forests to the global C cycle. The database version associated with this publication is archived in Dryad (DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t516f) and a dynamic version is maintained at https://github.-com/forc-db.
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