Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence exhibits a universal relationship with gross primary productivity across a wide variety of biomes

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Xiao, J., Li, X., He, B., Arain, M. A., Beringer, J., Desai, A. R., Emmel, C., Hollinger, D.Y., Krasnova, A., Mammarella, I. & Noe, S. M.

Title

Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence exhibits a universal relationship with gross primary productivity across a wide variety of biomes

Year

2019

Publication Outlet

Global Change Biology, 25(4), e4-e6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14565

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Xiao, J., Li, X., He, B., Arain, M. A., Beringer, J., Desai, A. R., Emmel, C., Hollinger, D.Y., Krasnova, A., Mammarella, I. & Noe, S. M. (2019). Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence exhibits a universal relationship with gross primary productivity across a wide variety of biomes. Global Change Biology, 25(4), e4-e6. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14565

Abstract

In our recent study in Global Change Biology (Li et al., 2018), we examined the relationship between solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) measured from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and gross primary productivity (GPP) derived from eddy covariance flux towers across the globe, and we discovered that there is a nearly universal relationship between SIF and GPP across a wide variety of biomes. This finding reveals the tremendous potential of SIF for accurately mapping terrestrial photosynthesis globally.

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