Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites.

Abstract:

:We apply and compare three widely applicable methods for estimating ecosystem transpiration (T) from eddy covariance (EC) data across 251 FLUXNET sites globally. All three methods are based on the coupled water and carbon relationship, but they differ in assumptions and parameterizations. Intercomparison of the three daily T estimates shows high correlation among methods (R between .89 and .94), but a spread in magnitudes of T/ET (evapotranspiration) from 45% to 77%. When compared at six sites with concurrent EC and sap flow measurements, all three EC-based T estimates show higher correlation to sap flow-based T than EC-based ET. The partitioning methods show expected tendencies of T/ET increasing with dryness (vapor pressure deficit and days since rain) and with leaf area index (LAI). Analysis of 140 sites with high-quality estimates for at least two continuous years shows that T/ET variability was 1.6 times higher across sites than across years. Spatial variability of T/ET was primarily driven by vegetation and soil characteristics (e.g., crop or grass designation, minimum annual LAI, soil coarse fragment volume) rather than climatic variables such as mean/standard deviation of temperature or precipitation. Overall, T and T/ET patterns are plausible and qualitatively consistent among the different water flux partitioning methods implying a significant advance made for estimating and understanding T globally, while the magnitudes remain uncertain. Our results represent the first extensive EC data-based estimates of ecosystem T permitting a data-driven perspective on the role of plants' water use for global water and carbon cycling in a changing climate.

journal_name

Glob Chang Biol

journal_title

Global change biology

authors

Nelson JA,Pérez-Priego O,Zhou S,Poyatos R,Zhang Y,Blanken PD,Gimeno TE,Wohlfahrt G,Desai AR,Gioli B,Limousin JM,Bonal D,Paul-Limoges E,Scott RL,Varlagin A,Fuchs K,Montagnani L,Wolf S,Delpierre N,Berveiller D,Gharu

doi

10.1111/gcb.15314

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-12-01 00:00:00

pages

6916-6930

issue

12

eissn

1354-1013

issn

1365-2486

journal_volume

26

pub_type

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