Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites

Biogeosciences - Tập 15 Số 11 - Trang 3421-3437
Donghai Wu1, Philippe Ciais2, Nicolas Viovy2, Alan K. Knapp3, Kevin R. Wilcox4, Michael Bahn5, Melinda D. Smith3, Sara Vicca6, Simone Fatichi7, Jakob Zscheischler8, Yue He1, Xiangyi Li1, Akihiko Ito9, Almut Arneth10, Anna Harper11, Anna Ukkola12, Athanasios Paschalis13, Benjamin Poulter14, Changhui Peng15,16, D. M. Ricciuto17, David Reinthaler5, Guangsheng Chen18, Hanqin Tian18, Hélène Genet19, Jiafu Mao17, Johannes Ingrisch5, Julia E. M. S. Nabel20, Julia Pongratz20, Lena Boysen20, Markus Kautz10, Michael Schmitt5, Patrick Meir21,22, Qiuan Zhu16, Roland Hasibeder5, Sebastian Sippel23, Shree R. S. Dangal18,24, Stephen Sitch25, Xiaoying Shi17, Ying‐Ping Wang26, Yiqi Luo27,4, Yongwen Liu1, Shilong Piao1
1Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
2Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-Sur-Yvette 91191, France
3Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
4Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
5Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
6Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
7Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
8Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
9National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
10Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
11College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QF, UK
12ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia
13Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
14NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
15Institute of Environment Sciences, Biology Science Department, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montréal H3C 3P8, Québec, Canada
16State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
17Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6301, USA
18International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.
19Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, USA
20Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
21Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
22School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FF, UK
23Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, 1431 Ås, Norway
24Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts 02540-1644, USA
25College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK
26CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, PMB 1, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia
27Center for Ecosystem Sciences and Society, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA

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Abstract. Field measurements of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) in temperate grasslands suggest that both positive and negative asymmetric responses to changes in precipitation (P) may occur. Under normal range of precipitation variability, wet years typically result in ANPP gains being larger than ANPP declines in dry years (positive asymmetry), whereas increases in ANPP are lower in magnitude in extreme wet years compared to reductions during extreme drought (negative asymmetry). Whether the current generation of ecosystem models with a coupled carbon–water system in grasslands are capable of simulating these asymmetric ANPP responses is an unresolved question. In this study, we evaluated the simulated responses of temperate grassland primary productivity to scenarios of altered precipitation with 14 ecosystem models at three sites: Shortgrass steppe (SGS), Konza Prairie (KNZ) and Stubai Valley meadow (STU), spanning a rainfall gradient from dry to moist. We found that (1) the spatial slopes derived from modeled primary productivity and precipitation across sites were steeper than the temporal slopes obtained from inter-annual variations, which was consistent with empirical data; (2) the asymmetry of the responses of modeled primary productivity under normal inter-annual precipitation variability differed among models, and the mean of the model ensemble suggested a negative asymmetry across the three sites, which was contrary to empirical evidence based on filed observations; (3) the mean sensitivity of modeled productivity to rainfall suggested greater negative response with reduced precipitation than positive response to an increased precipitation under extreme conditions at the three sites; and (4) gross primary productivity (GPP), net primary productivity (NPP), aboveground NPP (ANPP) and belowground NPP (BNPP) all showed concave-down nonlinear responses to altered precipitation in all the models, but with different curvatures and mean values. Our results indicated that most models overestimate the negative drought effects and/or underestimate the positive effects of increased precipitation on primary productivity under normal climate conditions, highlighting the need for improving eco-hydrological processes in those models in the future.

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