10.35099/AURORA-541
Ren, Wei
Tian, Hanqin
Liu, Mingliang
Zhang, Chi
Chen, Guangsheng
Pan, Shufen
Felzer, Benjamin
Xu, Xiaofeng
Effects of tropospheric ozone pollution on net primary productivity and carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
2007
GROUND-LEVEL OZONE; LAND-USE CHANGE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; NO(X) EMISSIONS; ELEVATED OZONE; SURFACE OZONE; EAST-ASIA; MODEL; CO2
Auburn University
Auburn University
Hanqin Tian, tianhan@auburn.edu
2022-12-05
2022-12-05
2007
Journal Article, Academic Journal
https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50473
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©American Geophysical Union 2007. This is this the version of record co-published by the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. It is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: Ren, W., Tian, H., Liu, M., Zhang, C., Chen, G., Pan, S., Felzer, B. and Xu, X., 2007. Effects of tropospheric ozone pollution on net primary productivity and carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 112(D22).
We investigated the potential effects of elevated ozone (O-3) along with climate variability, increasing CO2, and land use change on net primary productivity (NPP) and carbon storage in China's terrestrial ecosystems for the period 1961 - 2000 with a process-based Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model (DLEM) forced by the gridded data of historical tropospheric O-3 and other environmental factors. The simulated results showed that elevated O-3 could result in a mean 4.5% reduction in NPP and 0.9% reduction in total carbon storage nationwide from 1961 to 2000. The reduction of carbon storage varied from 0.1 Tg C to 312 Tg C (a decreased rate ranging from 0.2% to 6.9%) among plant functional types. The effects of tropospheric O-3 on NPP were strongest in east-central China. Significant reductions in NPP occurred in northeastern and central China where a large proportion of cropland is distributed. The O-3 effects on carbon fluxes and storage are dependent upon other environmental factors. Therefore direct and indirect effects of O-3, as well as interactive effects with other environmental factors, should be taken into account in order to accurately assess the regional carbon budget in China. The results showed that the adverse influences of increasing O-3 concentration across China on NPP could be an important disturbance factor on carbon storage in the near future, and the improvement of air quality in China could enhance the capability of China's terrestrial ecosystems to sequester more atmospheric CO2. Our estimation of O-3 impacts on NPP and carbon storage in China, however, must be used with caution because of the limitation of historical tropospheric O-3 data and other uncertainties associated with model parameters and field experiments.