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Seasonal controlling factors of CO2 exchange in a semiarid shrubland in the Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico.
Flores-Rentería, Dulce; Delgado-Balbuena, Josue; Campuzano, Emmanuel F; Curiel Yuste, Jorge.
Affiliation
  • Flores-Rentería D; CONACYT-CINVESTAV Unidad Saltillo, Grupo de Sustentabilidad de los Recursos Naturales y Energía, Av. Industria Metalúrgica 1062, Parque Industrial Ramos Arizpe, C.P. 25900 Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico. Electronic address: yaahid.flores@cinvestav.edu.mx.
  • Delgado-Balbuena J; Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, CENID Agricultura Familiar, Mexico.
  • Campuzano EF; CINVESTAV Unidad Saltillo, Grupo de Sustentabilidad de los Recursos Naturales y Energía, Av. Industria Metalúrgica 1062, Parque Industrial Ramos Arizpe, C.P. 25900 Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico; UTV Unidad Académica Capulhuac, Calle s/n, 611 Oriente de, México, Lomas de San Juan, C.P. 52700 Capulhu
  • Curiel Yuste J; BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change, Scientific Campus of the University of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Spain; IKERBASQUE - Basque Foundation for Science, Maria Diaz de Haro 3, 6 solairua, 48013 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain.
Sci Total Environ ; 858(Pt 3): 159918, 2023 Feb 01.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36368389
The still significant uncertainties associated with the future capacity of terrestrial systems to mitigate climate change are linked to the lack of knowledge of the biotic and abiotic processes that regulate CO2 net ecosystem exchange (NEE) in space/time. Mainly, rates and controls of CO2 exchange from arid ecosystems, despite dominating the global trends in interannual variability of the terrestrial CO2 sink capacity, are probably the most poorly understood of all. We present a study on rates and controls of CO2 exchange measured with the eddy covariance (EC) technique in the Chihuahuan Desert in the Northeast of Mexico, to understand how the environmental controls of the NEE switch throughout the year using a multilevel approach. Since this is a water-limited ecosystem, the hydroecological year, based on the last precipitation and the decay of air temperature, was used to compare the wet (from May 16 to October 30, 2019) and dry (November 1, 2019 to May 15, 2020) seasons' controlling mechanisms, both at diurnal and nocturnal times. Annual NEE was -303.5 g C m-2, with a cumulative Reco of 537.7 g C m-2 and GPP of 841.3 g C m-2. NEE showed radiation, temperature, and soil moisture sensitivity along the day, however, shifts in these controls along the year and between seasons were identified. The winter precipitations during the dry season led to fast C release followed by lagged C uptake. Despite this flux pulse, the ecosystem was a net sink throughout most of the year because the local vegetation is well adapted to grow and uptake C under these arid conditions, even during the dry season. Understanding the controls of the sink-source shifts is relevant since the predictions for future climate include changes in the precipitation patterns.
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Carbon Dioxide / Ecosystem Type of study: Prognostic_studies Aspects: Patient_preference Country/Region as subject: Mexico Language: En Journal: Sci Total Environ Year: 2023 Document type: Article Country of publication: Netherlands

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Carbon Dioxide / Ecosystem Type of study: Prognostic_studies Aspects: Patient_preference Country/Region as subject: Mexico Language: En Journal: Sci Total Environ Year: 2023 Document type: Article Country of publication: Netherlands