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Seasonal time-course of the above ground biomass production efficiency in beech trees (Fagus sylvatica L.) / Laura Heid in Annals of Forest Science, vol 75 n° 1 (March 2018)  

Public [article]  inAnnals of Forest Science > vol 75 n° 1 (March 2018) Titre : Seasonal time-course of the above ground biomass production efficiency in beech trees (Fagus sylvatica L.) Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Laura Heid, Auteur ; Christophe Calvaruso, Auteur ; Anjy Andrianantenaina, Auteur ; André Granier, Auteur ; Sébastien Conil, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] biomasse aérienne [Termes IGN] biomasse forestière [Termes IGN] densité de la végétation [Termes IGN] écosystème forestier [Termes IGN] Fagus sylvatica [Termes IGN] production primaire brute [Termes IGN] variation saisonnière [Vedettes matières IGN] Végétation et changement climatique Résumé : (Auteur) In order to record the seasonal changes in aboveground biomass production (trunk and branches) in a forest, changes in wood density must be taken into account. A 60-year-old beech forest displayed a large intra-annual variability in its aboveground woody biomass production efficiency. This variation followed a seasonal trend with a maximum during the summer while gross primary production was rather low. In the current context of land use and climate change, there is a need to precisely quantify the carbon (C) balance of forest ecosystems, and more specifically, of C allocation to tree compartments. We quantified the seasonal changes in the aboveground biomass production (aBP) of a beech forest growing on two different soils: an alocrisol and a calci-brunisol. In addition, for the alocrisol ecosystem, we assessed the existence and degree of intra-annual variability in the ratio of wood aBP to gross primary production (GPP), i.e., the wood aBP efficiency. The study site is a 60-year-old beech forest in northeastern France. An eddy covariance tower records continuously net ecosystem exchange. To investigate the temporal changes in aBP, mini-cores were drilled and diameter at breast height measurements were taken on a monthly basis from 45 trees for both stands studied over 2014. A clear difference in aBP was observed between the two soils with the alocrisol being more productive than the calci-brunisol. For the alocrisol, both woody aBP and GPP changed over the course of the year, reaching peak values during June (6 and 12.5 gC m−2 day−1, respectively). Wood applied bias photon-to-current efficiency aboveground Biomass Production Efficiency (aBPE) also showed important intra-annual variations, ranging from 0.09 in September to 0.58 in July. Wood density varied throughout the year, and not taking it into account would have led to an overestimation of aBP by as much as 20% in April and May. Our study highlights the importance of taking wood density into account for intra-annual studies of aBP. Wood aBPE cannot be considered as constant as it fluctuated from 0.09 to 0.58 throughout the year for an annual value of 0.34. The potential error in wood aBPE stemming from not taking these changes into account amounts to 15%. Numéro de notice : A2018-312 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : BIODIVERSITE/FORET Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s13595-018-0707-9 Date de publication en ligne : 08/03/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-018-0707-9 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=90435 [article]