Elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration and vegetation structural changes contributed to gross primary productivity increase more than climate and forest cover changes in subtropical forests of China
Tao Chen,Félicien Meunier,Marc Peaucelle,Guoping Tang,Ye Yuan,and Hans Verbeeck
Carbon-Water Observation and Research Station in Karst Regions of Northern Guangdong, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
CAVElab – Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
Carbon-Water Observation and Research Station in Karst Regions of Northern Guangdong, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
Ye Yuan
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
Chinese subtropical forest ecosystems are an extremely important component of global forest ecosystems and hence crucial for the global carbon cycle and regional climate change. However, there is still great uncertainty in the relationship between subtropical forest carbon sequestration and its drivers. We provide first quantitative estimates of the individual and interactive effects of different drivers on the gross primary productivity changes of various subtropical forest types in China.
Chinese subtropical forest ecosystems are an extremely important component of global forest...
