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Revisiting and attributing the global controls over terrestrial ecosystem functions of climate and plant traits at FLUXNET sites via causal graphical models
Haiyang Shi
School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China
Sino-Belgian Joint Laboratory of Geo-Information, Ghent 9000, Belgium
Geping Luo
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang
Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi,
Xinjiang, 830011, China
College of Resources and Environment, University of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, 19 (A) Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China
The National Key Laboratory of Ecological Security and Sustainable
Development in Arid Region, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
Sino-Belgian Joint Laboratory of Geo-Information, Ghent 9000, Belgium
Olaf Hellwich
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Computer Vision & Remote Sensing, Technische
Universität Berlin, 10587 Berlin, Germany
Alishir Kurban
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang
Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi,
Xinjiang, 830011, China
College of Resources and Environment, University of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, 19 (A) Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China
The National Key Laboratory of Ecological Security and Sustainable
Development in Arid Region, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
Sino-Belgian Joint Laboratory of Geo-Information, Ghent 9000, Belgium
Philippe De Maeyer
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang
Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi,
Xinjiang, 830011, China
College of Resources and Environment, University of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, 19 (A) Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China
Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
Sino-Belgian Joint Laboratory of Geo-Information, Ghent 9000, Belgium
Tim Van de Voorde
Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
Sino-Belgian Joint Laboratory of Geo-Information, Ghent 9000, Belgium
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In studies on the relationship between ecosystem functions and climate and plant traits, previously used data-driven methods such as multiple regression and random forest may be inadequate for representing causality due to limitations such as covariance between variables. Based on FLUXNET site data, we used a causal graphical model to revisit the control of climate and vegetation traits over ecosystem functions.
In studies on the relationship between ecosystem functions and climate and plant traits,...
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