Stoy Lab

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In the Stoy Lab, we study the role of vegetation in the climate system. To do so we measure and model the exchange of water, heat, and trace gases like carbon dioxide and methane between the terrestrial surface and the atmosphere. Recent efforts seek to understand feedbacks between land management and precipitation processes.

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Linking flux network measurements to continental scale simulations: Ecosystem gas exchange capacity along a European transect under non-water-stressed conditions
(2007-01) Owen, Katherine E.; Tenhunen, John; Reichstein, Markus; Wang, Quan; Falge, Eva; Geyer, Ralf; Xiao, Xiangming; Stoy, Paul C.; Ammann, Christof; Arain, M. Altaf; Aubinet, Marc; Aurela, Mika; Bernhofer, Christian; Chojnicki, Bogdan H.; Granier, Andre; Gruenwald, Thomas; Hadley, Julian; Heinesch, Bernard; Hollinger, David Y.; Knohl, Alexander; Kutsch, Werner L.; Lohila, Annalea; Meyers, Tilden P.; Moors, Eddy J.; Moureaux, Christine; Pilegaard, Kim; Saigusa, Nobuko; Verma, Shashi B.; Vesala, Timo; Vogel, Chris
This paper examines long‐term eddy covariance data from 18 European and 17 North American and Asian forest, wetland, tundra, grassland, and cropland sites under non‐water‐stressed conditions with an empirical rectangular hyperbolic light response model and a single layer two light‐class carboxylase‐based model. Relationships according to ecosystem functional type are demonstrated between empirical and physiological parameters, suggesting linkages between easily estimated parameters and those with greater potential for process interpretation. Relatively sparse documentation of leaf area index dynamics at flux tower sites is found to be a major difficulty in model inversion and flux interpretation. Therefore, a simplification of the physiological model is carried out for a subset of European network sites with extensive ancillary data. The results from these selected sites are used to derive a new parameter and means for comparing empirical and physiologically based methods across all sites, regardless of ancillary data. The results from the European analysis are then compared with results from the other Northern Hemisphere sites and similar relationships for the simplified process‐based parameter were found to hold for European, North American, and Asian temperate and boreal climate zones. This parameter is useful for bridging between flux network observations and continental scale spatial simulations of vegetation/atmosphere carbon dioxide exchange.
Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms
(2012-03-07) Niu, Shuli; Luo, Yiqi; Fei, Shenfeng; Yuan, Wenping; Schimel, David; Law, Beverly E.; Ammann, Christof; Arain, M. Altaf; Arneth, Almut; Aubinet, Marc; Barr, Alan G.; Beringer, Jason; Bernhofer, Christian; Black, T. Andrew; Buchmann, Nina; Cescatti, Alessandro; Chen, Jiquan; Davis, Kenneth J.; Dellwik, Ebba; Desai, Ankur R.; Etzold, Sophia; Francois, Louis; Gianelle, Damiano; Gielen, Bert; Goldstein, Allen; Groenendijk, Margriet; Gu, Lianhong; Hanan, Niall; Helfter, Carole; Hirano, Takashi; Hollinger, David Y.; Jones, Mike B.; Kiely, Gerard; Kolb, Thomas E.; Kutsch, Werner L.; Lafleur, Peter; Lawrence, David M.; Li, Linghao; Lindroth, Anders; Litvak, Marcy; Loustau, Denis; Lund, Magnus; Marek, Michal; Martin, Timothy A.; Matteucci, Giorgio; Migliavacca, Mirco; Montagnani, Leonardo; Moors, Eddy; Munger, J. William; Noormets, Asko; Oechel, Walter C.; Olejnik, Janusz; Pilegaard, Kim; Paw U, Kyaw Tha; Pilegaard, Kim; Rambal, Serge; Raschi, Antonio; Scott, Russell L.; Seufert, Günther; Spano, Donatella; Stoy, Paul C.; Sutton, Mark A.; Varlagin, Andrej; Vesala, Timo; Weng, Ensheng; Wohlfahrt, Georg; Yang, Bai; Zhang, Zhongda; Zhou, Xuhui
It is well established that individual organisms can acclimate and adapt to temperature to optimize their functioning. However, thermal optimization of ecosystems, as an assemblage of organisms, has not been examined at broad spatial and temporal scales. Here, we compiled data from 169 globally distributed sites of eddy covariance and quantified the temperature response functions of net ecosystem exchange (NEE), an ecosystem-level property, to determine whether NEE shows thermal optimality and to explore the underlying mechanisms. We found that the temperature response of NEE followed a peak curve, with the optimum temperature (corresponding to the maximum magnitude of NEE) being positively correlated with annual mean temperature over years and across sites. Shifts of the optimum temperature of NEE were mostly a result of temperature acclimation of gross primary productivity (upward shift of optimum temperature) rather than changes in the temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration. Ecosystem-level thermal optimality is a newly revealed ecosystem property, presumably reflecting associated evolutionary adaptation of organisms within ecosystems, and has the potential to significantly regulate ecosystemclimate change feedbacks. The thermal optimality of NEE has implications for understanding fundamental properties of ecosystems in changing environments and benchmarking global models.