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Scaling photosynthesis in tropical systems: from forest to savanna, from seasons to extreme events

Saleska, Scott: University of Arizona (Project Lead)

Project Funding: 2010 - 2013

NRA: NASA: Terra and Aqua   

Funded by NASA

Publications:

Guan, K., Pan, M., Li, H., Wolf, A., Wu, J., Medvigy, D., Caylor, K. K., Sheffield, J., Wood, E. F., Malhi, Y., Liang, M., Kimball, J. S., Saleska, S. R., Berry, J., Joiner, J., Lyapustin, A. I. 2015. Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate. Nature Geoscience. 8(4), 284-289. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2382

Wu, J., Chavana-Bryant, C., Prohaska, N., Serbin, S. P., Guan, K., Albert, L. P., Yang, X., Leeuwen, W. J. D., Garnello, A. J., Martins, G., Malhi, Y., Gerard, F., Oliviera, R. C., Saleska, S. R. 2016. Convergence in relationships between leaf traits, spectra and age across diverse canopy environments and two contrasting tropical forests. New Phytologist. 214(3), 1033-1048. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14051

Wu, J., Guan, K., Hayek, M., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Wiedemann, K. T., Xu, X., Wehr, R., Christoffersen, B. O., Miao, G., Silva, R., Araujo, A. C., Oliviera, R. C., Camargo, P. B., Monson, R. K., Huete, A. R., Saleska, S. R. 2016. Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales. Global Change Biology. 23(3), 1240-1257. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13509

Wu, J., Kobayashi, H., Stark, S. C., Meng, R., Guan, K., Tran, N. N., Gao, S., Yang, W., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Miura, T., Oliviera, R. C., Rogers, A., Dye, D. G., Nelson, B. W., Serbin, S. P., Huete, A. R., Saleska, S. R. 2017. Biological processes dominate seasonality of remotely sensed canopy greenness in an Amazon evergreen forest. New Phytologist. 217(4), 1507-1520. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14939

Xu, X., Medvigy, D., Joseph Wright, S., Kitajima, K., Wu, J., Albert, L. P., Martins, G. A., Saleska, S. R., Pacala, S. W. 2017. Variations of leaf longevity in tropical moist forests predicted by a trait-driven carbon optimality model. Ecology Letters. 20(9), 1097-1106. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12804

Wu, J., Albert, L. P., Lopes, A. P., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Hayek, M., Wiedemann, K. T., Guan, K., Stark, S. C., Christoffersen, B., Prohaska, N., Tavares, J. V., Marostica, S., Kobayashi, H., Ferreira, M. L., Campos, K. S., da Silva, R., Brando, P. M., Dye, D. G., Huxman, T. E., Huete, A. R., Nelson, B. W., Saleska, S. R. 2016. Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests. Science. 351(6276), 972-976. DOI: 10.1126/science.aad5068


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