Articles | Volume 13, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2387-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2387-2016
Research article
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26 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 26 Apr 2016

The contribution of trees and grasses to productivity of an Australian tropical savanna

Caitlin E. Moore, Jason Beringer, Bradley Evans, Lindsay B. Hutley, Ian McHugh, and Nigel J. Tapper

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Savannas cover 20 % of the global land surface and account for 25 % of global terrestrial carbon uptake. They support 20 % of the world’s human population and are one of the most important ecosystems on our planet. We evaluated the temporal partitioning of carbon between overstory and understory in Australian tropical savanna using eddy covariance. We found the understory contributed ~ 32 % to annual productivity, increasing to 40 % in the wet season, thus driving seasonality in carbon uptake.
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