Penumbral and foliage distribution effects on Pinus sylvestris canopy gas exchange |
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Authors: | R J Ryel E Falge U Joss R Geyer J D Tenhunen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Rangeland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA, US;(2) Department of Plant Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, DE;(3) Meteotest, Bern, Switzerland, CH |
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Abstract: | Summary Tree canopy water use and foliage net CO2 uptake (NPP) were simulated for a 31-year-old Pinus sylvestris (Scots pine) plantation near Hartheim, in the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany with a mechanistically-based, three-dimensional
stand gas-exchange model (STANDFLUX) for a ten-day period during spring 1992. STANDFLUX was formulated to include the effects
of penumbra caused by the fine structure of the needles on light distribution within crowns. Good correspondence was found
between simulated rates of tree canopy water use when including penumbral effects and eddy-covariance ET and sap flow transpiration
measurements. Water use was 8–13% lower and NPP was 10–17% lower in simulations for the ten-day period when penumbral effects
were not included.
Simulated water use and CO2 uptake were compared with similar outputs from a simplified layer canopy model (including or not including penumbra) which
assumed horizontal homogeneity in canopy structure (GAS FLUX). Our results for the Pinus sylvestris stand indicate that penumbral effects were more important than the degree of model simplification with respect to foliage
distribution (three-dimensional vs. layered structure) for estimating stand-level fluxes for these pines.
Simulated maximum hourly NPP was similar to rates measured for other Pinus sylvestris stands using other methods. Predicted decreases in tree transpiration due to the modelled response of needle gas exchange
to increasing vapour-pressure deficit agreed with measured changes in transpiration, and suggested that stomatal response
may have been more important than decreasing soil water availability in controlling water flux to the atmosphere during this
period. The overall results of the study demonstrate that current approaches in canopy modelling that separate light into
sun versus shade intensities can be effective, but must be applied with caution when attempting to predict long-term water
and carbon balances of forests.
Received May 1, 1999 Revised November 9, 2000 |
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