Articles | Volume 9, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4227-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4227-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Model description paper
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24 Nov 2016
Model description paper | Highlight paper |
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Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro)
Bradley O. Christoffersen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Manuel Gloor
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Sophie Fauset
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Nikolaos M. Fyllas
Department of Ecology and Systematics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
David R. Galbraith
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Timothy R. Baker
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Bart Kruijt
Wageningen Environmental Research (ALTERRA), Wageningen, the Netherlands
Lucy Rowland
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Rosie A. Fisher
Climate & Global Dynamics, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Oliver J. Binks
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Sanna Sevanto
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Chonggang Xu
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Steven Jansen
Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
Brendan Choat
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, New South Wales 2753, Australia
Maurizio Mencuccini
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
ICREA at CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona 08193, Spain
Nate G. McDowell
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Patrick Meir
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Data sets
Pantropical Tree Sapwood Area Data, 1977-2015 Bradley Christoffersen https://doi.org/10.15486/NGT/1256473
Pantropical Tree Sapwood Hydraulic Properties, 1991-2014 Bradley Christoffersen https://doi.org/10.15486/NGT/1256474
Short summary
We developed a plant hydraulics model for tropical forests based on established plant physiological theory, and parameterized it by conducting a pantropical hydraulic trait survey. We show that a substantial amount of trait diversity can be represented in the model by a reduced set of trait dimensions. The fully parameterized model is able capture tree-level variation in water status and improves simulations of total ecosystem transpiration, showing how to incorporate hydraulic traits in models.
We developed a plant hydraulics model for tropical forests based on established plant...
