Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity
Satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), a proxy of vegetation productivity, is known to be correlated with temperature in northern ecosystems. This relationship, however, may change over time following alternations in other environmental factors. Here we show that above 30°N...
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ftncar:oai:drupal-site.org:articles_14449 2023-09-05T13:17:04+02:00 Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity Piao, Shilong (author) Nan, Huijuan (author) Huntingford, Chris (author) Ciais, Philippe (author) Friedlingstein, Pierre (author) Sitch, Stephen (author) Peng, Shushi (author) Ahlström, Anders (author) Canadell, Josep (author) Cong, Nan (author) Levis, Samuel (author) Levy, Peter (author) Liu, Lingli (author) Lomas, Mark (author) Mao, Jiafu (author) Myneni, Ranga (author) Peylin, Philippe (author) Poulter, Ben (author) Shi, Xiaoying (author) Yin, Guodong (author) 2014-10-16 http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-021-273 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6018 en eng Nature Publishing Group Nature Communications http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-021-273 doi:10.1038/ncomms6018 ark:/85065/d73n24dd Copyright Author(s) 2014. Text article 2014 ftncar https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6018 2023-08-14T18:37:11Z Satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), a proxy of vegetation productivity, is known to be correlated with temperature in northern ecosystems. This relationship, however, may change over time following alternations in other environmental factors. Here we show that above 30°N, the strength of the relationship between the interannual variability of growing season NDVI and temperature (partial correlation coefficient RNDVI-GT) declined substantially between 1982 and 2011. This decrease in RNDVI-GT is mainly observed in temperate and arctic ecosystems, and is also partly reproduced by process-based ecosystem model results. In the temperate ecosystem, the decrease in RNDVI-GT coincides with an increase in drought. In the arctic ecosystem, it may be related to a nonlinear response of photosynthesis to temperature, increase of hot extreme days and shrub expansion over grass-dominated tundra. Our results caution the use of results from interannual time scales to constrain the decadal response of plants to ongoing warming. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Tundra OpenSky (NCAR/UCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Arctic Nature Communications 5 1 |
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Satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), a proxy of vegetation productivity, is known to be correlated with temperature in northern ecosystems. This relationship, however, may change over time following alternations in other environmental factors. Here we show that above 30°N, the strength of the relationship between the interannual variability of growing season NDVI and temperature (partial correlation coefficient RNDVI-GT) declined substantially between 1982 and 2011. This decrease in RNDVI-GT is mainly observed in temperate and arctic ecosystems, and is also partly reproduced by process-based ecosystem model results. In the temperate ecosystem, the decrease in RNDVI-GT coincides with an increase in drought. In the arctic ecosystem, it may be related to a nonlinear response of photosynthesis to temperature, increase of hot extreme days and shrub expansion over grass-dominated tundra. Our results caution the use of results from interannual time scales to constrain the decadal response of plants to ongoing warming. |
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Piao, Shilong (author) Nan, Huijuan (author) Huntingford, Chris (author) Ciais, Philippe (author) Friedlingstein, Pierre (author) Sitch, Stephen (author) Peng, Shushi (author) Ahlström, Anders (author) Canadell, Josep (author) Cong, Nan (author) Levis, Samuel (author) Levy, Peter (author) Liu, Lingli (author) Lomas, Mark (author) Mao, Jiafu (author) Myneni, Ranga (author) Peylin, Philippe (author) Poulter, Ben (author) Shi, Xiaoying (author) Yin, Guodong (author) |
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Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity |
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Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity |
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Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity |
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Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity |
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Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity |
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Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity |
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evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity |
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