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Estimating the Net Primary and Net Ecosystem Production of a Southeastern Upland Quercus Forest from an 8-Year Biometric Record

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North American Temperate Deciduous Forest Responses to Changing Precipitation Regimes

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 166))

Abstract

Although 8 years of manipulated precipitation levels have not produced significant tree-growth responses in an upland Quercus forest in eastern Tennessee (Hanson et al. 2001), interannual differences in physiological processes (Chapters 3, 4, 6–8, and 10, this volume), storage carbohydrates (Chapter 5, this volume), tree and sapling growth rates (Chapter 15, this volume), root growth (Chapter 16, this volume), and foliar-litter production (Chapter 17, this volume) suggest that interannual differences in net primary production (NPP) and net ecosystem production (NEP) are likely. By accepted definition, NPP is the difference between carbon gain from autotrophic organisms (i.e., gross primary production, GPP) minus autotrophic respiration (R auto). NEP is the annual net change in ecosystem carbon storage defined as NPP minus heterotrophic respiration (R hetero). At the local scale, NEP may also be reduced from non-CO2 losses of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from vegetation (Guenther et al. 1996; Isebrands et al. 1999) and soils (Hanson and Hoffman 1994) and under ambient or flooded conditions from the gain or loss of CH4 from soils, respectively (LeMer and Roger 2000).

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Hanson, P.J., Edwards, N.T., Tschaplinski, T.J., Wullschleger, S.D., Joslin, J.D. (2003). Estimating the Net Primary and Net Ecosystem Production of a Southeastern Upland Quercus Forest from an 8-Year Biometric Record. In: Hanson, P.J., Wullschleger, S.D. (eds) North American Temperate Deciduous Forest Responses to Changing Precipitation Regimes. Ecological Studies, vol 166. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0021-2_22

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