Sensitivity of carbon budget to historical climate variability and atmospheric CO 2 concentration in temperate grassland ecosystems in China

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Author	Sui, Xinghua Zhou, Guangsheng Zhuang, Qianlai
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Chinese temperate grasslands play an important role in the terrestrial carbon cycle. Based on the parameterization and validation of Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM, Version 5.0), we analyzed the carbon budgets of Chinese temperate grasslands and their responses to historical atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate variability during 1951–2007. The results indicated that Chinese temperate grassland acted as a slight carbon sink with annual mean value of 7.3 Tg C, ranging from -80.5 to 79.6 Tg C yr. Our sensitivity experiments further revealed that precipitation variability was the primary factor for decreasing carbon storage. CO2 fertilization may increase the carbon storage (1.4 %) but cannot offset the proportion caused by climate variability (-15.3 %). Impacts of CO2 concentration, temperature and precipitation variability on Chinese temperate grassland cannot be simply explained by the sum of the individual effects. Interactions among them increased total carbon storage of 56.6 Tg C which 14.2 Tg C was stored in vegetation and 42.4 Tg C was stored in soil. Besides, different grassland types had different responses to climate change and CO2 concentration. NPP and RH of the desert and forest steppes were more sensitive to precipitation variability than temperature variability while the typical steppe responded to temperature variability more sensitively than the desert and forest steppes. Climatic Change (2013) 117:259–272 DOI 10.1007/s10584-012-0533-2 Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10584-012-0533-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. X. Sui : G. Zhou (*) State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China e-mail: gszhou@ibcas.ac.cn G. Zhou Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China Q. Zhuang Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA X. Sui Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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