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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2016, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (9): 2771-2778.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.201609.017

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Collaborative application of BEPS at different time steps.

LU Wei1, FAN Wen-yi1*, TIAN Tian2   

  1. 1College of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China;
    2Northern Aerial Forest Fire Protection Station of State Forestry Administration, Harbin 150040, China
  • Received:2016-01-21 Published:2016-09-18
  • Contact: * E-mail: fanwy@163.com
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Science & Technology Pillar Program (2011BAD37B01) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31300533)

Abstract: BEPSHourly is committed to simulate the ecological and physiological process of vegetation at hourly time steps, and is often applied to analyze the diurnal change of gross primary productivity (GPP), net primary productivity (NPP) at site scale because of its more complex model structure and time-consuming solving process. However, daily photosynthetic rate calculation in BEPSDaily model is simpler and less time-consuming, not involving many iterative processes. It is suitable for simulating the regional primary productivity and analyzing the spatial distribution of regional carbon sources and sinks. According to the characteristics and applicability of BEPSDaily and BEPSHourly models, this paper proposed a method of collaborative application of BEPS at daily and hourly time steps. Firstly, BEPSHourly was used to optimize the main photosynthetic parameters: the maximum rate of carboxylation (Vc max) and the maximum rate of photosynthetic electron transport (Jmax) at site scale, and then the two optimized parameters were introduced into BEPSDaily model to estimate regional NPP at regional scale. The results showed that optimization of the main photosynthesis parameters based on the flux data could improve the simulate ability of the model. The primary productivity of different forest types in descending order was deciduous broad-leaved forest, mixed forest, coniferous forest in 2011. The collaborative application of carbon cycle models at different steps proposed in this study could effectively optimize the main photosynthesis parameters Vc max and Jmax, simulate the monthly averaged diurnal GPP, NPP, calculate the regional NPP, and analyze the spatial distribution of regional carbon sources and sinks.