11 September, 2020 (Green, nature, SMC->NBP) Green, J.K., Seneviratne, S.I., Berg, A.M. et al. Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake. Nature 565, 476โ479 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0848-x
Overview The authors concluded that soil moisture has substantial effect on long-term net biosphere productivity (NBP, a.k.a. NEE?) using a global satellite product of SIF and TWS (GRACE) and multi-model ensemble from the GLACE-CMIP5 project. They explained that the SMC effect was attributable to non-linear response of NBP to SMC.
26 July, 2020 (McDowell, science, Forest dynamics in the future) McDowell, N.G., Allen, C.D., Anderson-Teixeira, K., Aukema, B.H., Bond-Lamberty, B., Chini, L., et al. (2020). Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world. Science, 368, eaaz9463.
Shifts toward shorter and younger forests. What will be the future state of forests and how will it be different from the current one?
Uncertainties In the early stage of the climate change, trees assimilated more carbon than before the change.
23 July, 2020 (Samuels-Crow, JGRBG, SAM->NEE and ET) SamuelsโCrow, K. E., Ogle, K., & Litvak, M. E. (2020). AtmosphereโSoil Interactions Govern Ecosystem Flux Sensitivity to Environmental Conditions in Semiarid Woody Ecosystems over Varying Timescales. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125, e2019JG005554. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005554
Summary Samuels-Crow et al., in this paper, quantified environmental antecedent (past) memory of water (ET) and carbon (NEE) fluxes over two semi-arid sites where two different conifer species dominate each.