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| The Ecohydrological Mechanisms of Resilience and Vulnerability of Amazonian Tropical Forests to Water Stress | |
| Christoffersen;Bradley | |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 学位授予单位 | The University of Arizona. |
| 英文摘要 | Predicting the interactions between climate change and ecosystems remains a core problem in global change research; tropical forest ecosystems are of particular importance because of their disproportionate role in global carbon and water cycling. Amazonia is unique among tropical forest ecosystems, exhibiting a high degree of coupling with its regional hydrometeorology, such that the stability of the entire forest-climate system is dependent on the functioning of its component parts. Belowground ecohydrological interactions between soil moisture environments and the roots which permeate them initiate the water transport pathway to leaf stomata, yet despite the disproportionate role they play in vegetation-atmosphere coupling in Amazonian forest ecosystems, the impacts of climate variability on the belowground environment remain understudied. The research which follows is designed to address critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of root functioning in Amazonian tropical forests as it relates to seasonality and extremes in belowground moisture regime as well as discerning which ecohydrological mechanisms govern ecosystem-level processes of carbon and water flux. A secondary research theme is the evaluation and use of models of ecosystem function as applied to Amazonia - these models are the "knowledge boxes" which build in the ecohydrological hypotheses (some testable than others) deemed to be most important for the forest ecosystems of Amazonia. In what follows, I investigate (i) which mechanisms of water supply (from the soil environment) and water demand (by vegetation) regulate the magnitude and seasonality of evapotranspiration across broad environmental gradients of Amazonia, (ii) how specific hypotheses of root function are or are not corroborated by soil moisture measurements conducted under normal seasonal and experimentally-induced extreme drought conditions, and (iii) the linkage between an extreme drought event with associated impacts on root zone soil moisture, the inferred response of root water uptake, and the observed impacts on ecosystem carbon and water flux in an east central Amazonian forest. |
| 英文关键词 | Ecosystem land surface models Eddy covariance Plant water relations Root dynamics Tropical forests Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Amazonia |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293566 |
| 资源类型 | 学位论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/247397 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christoffersen;Bradley. The Ecohydrological Mechanisms of Resilience and Vulnerability of Amazonian Tropical Forests to Water Stress[D]. The University of Arizona.,2013. |
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