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Effect of air temperature and rainfall on wetland ecosystem CO2 exchange in China.

CHU Xiao-jing1,2, HAN Guang-xuan1   

  1. (1Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai 264003, Shandong, China; 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)
  • Online:2015-10-18 Published:2015-10-18

Abstract: Wetland can be a potential efficient sink to reduce global warming due to its higher primary productivity and lower carbon decomposition rate. While there has been a series progress on the influence mechanism of ecosystem CO2 exchange over China’s wetlands, a systematic metaanalysis of data still needs to be improved. We compiled data of ecosystem CO2 exchange of 21 typical wetland vegetation types in China from 29 papers and carried out an integrated analysis of air temperature and precipitation effects on net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE), ecosystem respiration (Reco), gross primary productivity (GPP), the response of NEE to PAR, and the response of Reco to temperature. The results showed that there were significant responses (P<0.05) of NEE (R2=50%, R2=57%), GPP (R2=60%, R2=50%) Reco (R2=44%, R2=50%) with increasing air temperature and enhanced precipitation on the annual scale. On the growing season scale, air temperature accounted for 50% of the spatial variation of NEE, 36% of GPP and 19% of Reco, respectively. Both NEE (R2=33%) and GPP (R2=25%) were correlated positively with precipitation (P<0.05). However, the relationship between Reco and precipitation was not significant (P>0.05). Across different Chinese wetlands, both precipitation and temperature had no significant effect on apparent quantum yield (α) or ecosystem respiration in the daytime (Reco,day, P>0.05). The maximum photosynthesis rate (Amax) was remarkably correlated with precipitation (P<0.01), but not with air temperature. Besides, there was no significant correlation between basal respiration〖KG*3〗(Rref)and precipitation (P>0.05). Precipitation was negatively correlated with temperature sensitivity of Reco(Q10, P<0.05). Furthermore, temperature accounted for 35% and 46% of the variations in temperature sensitivity of Reco(Q10) and basal respiration (Rref, P<0.05), respectively.