dennis baldocchi siyan ma, naama raz-yaseef, laurie koteen, joe verfaillie, trenton franz espm
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Ecology and Soil Moisture: Using an Oak-Grass Savanna as a Model System for Studying the Effects of Soil Moisture Dynamics on Water and Carbon Exchange. Dennis Baldocchi Siyan Ma, Naama Raz-Yaseef, Laurie Koteen, Joe Verfaillie, Trenton Franz ESPM UC Berkeley COSMOS Workshop - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Ecology and Soil Moisture:Using an Oak-Grass Savanna as a Model System for Studying the Effects of Soil Moisture Dynamics on Water and Carbon
Exchange
Dennis Baldocchi
Siyan Ma, Naama Raz-Yaseef, Laurie Koteen, Joe Verfaillie, Trenton FranzESPM
UC Berkeley
COSMOS WorkshopTucson, AZ, Dec 2012
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Oak-Savanna Model System for Studying the Effect of Soil Moisture on Ecosystem Ecology
• Structure/Function– Oak and grasses provide contrasting life forms, woody/herbaceous,
perennial/annual– The Canopy is open and heterogeneous, giving us a opportunity to test the
applicability of ecosystem and biogeophysical models, mostly developed for ideal and closed canopies
• Environmental Biology– The Mediterranean climate provides distinct wet/ cool and dry/hot seasons to
examine the ecosystem response (photosynthesis, transpiration, respiration, stomatal conductance) to a spectrum of soil moisture and temperature conditions
• Global Change– The Mediterranean climate experiences great extremes in inter-annual variability
in rainfall; we experience a wider range in ppt over a few years than long-term predicted changes.
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Tonzi Ranch Flux Tower
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Oak-Grass Savanna: A Two Layer System
Summer:Trees green; grass dead
Spring:Trees green;grass green
Winter:Trees deciduous; grass green
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Oak Savanna consists of Heterogeneous and Open Canopy with Low LAI (< 2.0)
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Objectives
• Examine fluxes of water and carbon with changes in soil moisture– Role of Seasonal Moisture Deficits– Role of Rain Pulses
• Explore spatial/temporal variation of soil moisture– Temporal variation with TDR– Depth of soil with GPR– Root distribution with GPR– Soil moisture spatial patterns with EMI
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Annual Grassland
Day
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
LE (M
J m
-2 d
-1)
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Oak Savanna Woodland, Ione, CA
Day
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
LE (M
J m
-2 d
-1)
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
A Decade of Evaporation Measurements
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Ione, CA
End of Hydrological Year
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010
Wat
er F
lux
(mm
/y)
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
ET, Oak SavannaET, annual grasslandprecipitation
InterAnnual Variation in Water BalancePpt: 350 to 900 mmET savannna: 380 to 520 mmET grass: 280 to 520 mm
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ppt (mm/y)
200 400 600 800 1000
ET
(mm
/y)
200
400
600
800
1000
grassland: ET +/- 87 mm/y; ppt +/- 170 mm/yoak savanna: ET +/- 61 mm/y
In Semi-Arid Regions, ET is Conservative:The Most ET lost, scales with Precipitation during the
Drier Years
‘Mediterranean Ecosystems Don’t evaporate more than 500 mm per year’, Serge Rambal
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Day
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
LE, M
J m
-2 d
-1
0
2
4
6
8
10
grasslandSavanna
Evaporation from an Oak Savanna > Annual GrasslandHow and Why?
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Days After Jan. 1, 2002
-50 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
volu
met
ric s
oil m
oist
ure
(cm
3 cm
-3):
0 to
0.6
0 m
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
oak savannagrassland
Soil Moisture Dynamics at Oak Savanna Differ from Near by Annual Grassland
Smaller Water Reservoir Contributes to Lack of Trees
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Eco-hydrology:ET, Functional Type, Physiological Capacity and Drought
?
?
?
E/
Eeq
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Rcanopy (s m-1)10 100 1000 10000
E/
E eq
0.00
0.25
0.50
0.75
1.00
1.25
1.50
1.75
2.00
wheatcornjack pineoak-savanna
Effects of Functional Types and Rsfc on Normalized Evaporation
Rc is a f(LAI, N, soil moisture, Ps Pathway)
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Grassland
weighted by roots (cm3 cm-3)
0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.40
E/ E eq
0.00
0.25
0.50
0.75
1.00
1.25
summer rain
Oak Savanna
weighted by roots(cm3 cm-3)
0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.30
E/ E eq
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
ET and Soil Water Deficits:Root-Weighted Soil Moisture
Baldocchi et al., 2004 AgForMet
Grassland
weighted by roots (cm3 cm-3)
0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.40
E/ E eq
0.00
0.25
0.50
0.75
1.00
1.25
summer rain
Oak Savanna
weighted by roots(cm3 cm-3)
0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.30
E/ E eq
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
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Measuring Spatial/Temporal Variation in Soil Moisture
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Tonzi
Day
0 100 200 300
Soi
l Moi
stur
e
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
Hourly Sampling, Few points and Depths, Theta ProbePoor Vertical and Horizontal Sampling
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How Deep is the Soil?
Trenton Franz, EMI
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Tonzi Ranch, 2009
Day
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
Vol
umet
ric S
oil M
oist
ure
(cm
3 cm
-3)
0
10
20
30
40
50
0-15 cm15-30 cm30-45 cm45-60 cm
ESI, Moisture PointMany Locations, Discrete Depths, Bi-Weekly, Manual Sampling
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day
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
Soi
l moi
stur
e (c
m3 c
m-3
)
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
Daily SamplingWeekly Sampling
Marry the Two Sensor Types
Calibrate Theta-Probe with Moisture PointBetter Spatio-Temporal Resolution
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Where are the Roots and How Many?
Remote Sensing Coarse Roots with GPR Ground Truth with Soil Pits
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Vertical Distribution of Roots with Ground Penetrating Radar
Raz-Yaseef et al. JGR Biogeosciences, in press
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Radial Distribution of Coarse Roots, with Ground Penetrating Radar
Raz-Yaseef et al. JGR Biogeosciences, in press
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Baldocchi et al., 2004 AgForMet
soil water potential (MPa)
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0
E/ E eq
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
predawn water potentialsoil water potential
soil water potential (MPa)
-3.0 -2.5 -2.0 -1.5 -1.0 -0.5 0.0
E/ E eq
0.00
0.25
0.50
0.75
1.00
1.25
oak savanna
annual grassland
ET and Soil Water Deficits:How do Trees stay Alive with such Low Water Potentials?
Root-Weighted Soil Moisture Matches Pre-Dawn Water Potential
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156 158 160 162 164 166158
158.02
158.04
158.06
158.08
158.1
158.12
158.14
158.16
158.18
158.2
DOY
grou
nd w
ater
ele
vatio
n [m
]groundwater elevation at Tonzi
G. Miller, X Chen, Y. Rubin, D. Baldocchi WRR 2010
But, Oak Trees Seem to Tap Ground Water
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Pre-Dawn Water Potential Represents Mix of Dry Soil and Water Table
Miller et al WRR, 2010
During Summer MidDay Water Potential is Less Negative than Shallow Soil Water Potential, Evidence the Trees are tapping Groundwater
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‘Soil Moisture’ Maps with EMI
Trenton Franz, U Arizona
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Oak Savanna, 2001-2011
Day of Year
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
Can
opy
Pho
tosy
nthe
sis
(gC
m-2
d-1
)
-6
-4
-2
0
2
Water Fluxes are Coupled with Carbon Fluxes
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Interannual Variation in Net Carbon Exchange:Grassland is Carbon Neutral; Savanna is a C Sink
Ione, CA
Hydrological Year
00-01 01-01 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11
NE
E (g
C m
-2 y
-1)
-300
-200
-100
0
100
200
300
400
Oak Savanna Annual Grassland
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Carbon Fluxes Scale with Spring Rainfall
Open Grassland
PPT3-6 (mm)
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
Ann
ual F
lux
(gC
m-2
)
-200
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
Savanna
PPT3-6 (mm)
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
GPP RecoNEE
Ma et al, 2007 AgForMet
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Soil Moisture Controls on Respiration
Soil volumetric water content (m3 m-3)
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4
Rec
o/Rre
f
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0Fast growth period data
Rain pulse
Xu + Baldocchi, AgForMet 2004
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274 276 278 280 282 284 286 288
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
DOY
NEE
[m
ol m
-2 s
-1]
Vaira 2008
Sustained and Elevated Respiration after Fall Rain
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Impact of Rain Pulse, Timing of Rain and Photodegradation on Ecosystem Respiration
Day
150 200 250 300 350
Fc
(m
ol m
-2 s
-1)
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
understoryopen grassland
Baldocchi et al, JGR, Biogeosciences, 2006
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Synthesis and Conclusion
a: Photosynthesis >Respiration
c: Seasonal WaterDeficits Occur &
Shorten the GrowingSeason
CO2 CO2
d: StomatalClosure Occursand Roots tap
Ground water toEnsure
Evaporation <Precipitation
f: Photosynthetic Capacitymust be Great, for a ShortPeriod when soil water is
ample, to Facilitate High Ratesof Photosynthesis
g: Leaf N and LeafThickness must be
adequate (high) to supportthese demands by the
Photosynthetic Machinery
e: Constraints from WaterBudget force the Ecosystemto produce a Sparse Canopywith Limited Leaf Area and
Reduced ET
20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
b:Photosynthesis
scales withWater Use
Day0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
Cum
ulat
ive
Wat
er F
lux,
mm
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
ET ppt
ET (mm d-1)0 1 2 3 4
GPP
(gC
m-2
d-1)
0
2
4
6
8
10
Day0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350Vo
lum
etric
Wat
er C
onte
nt
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.05 m0.50 m
DOY
100 150 200 250 300 350V
cmax
(m
ol m
-2 s
-1)
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
Quercus alba (Wilson et al)Quercus douglasii (Xu and Baldocchi)
Broadleaved, Deciduous Trees
Specific Leaf Area (cm2 g-1)
60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
Am
ass (
nmol
g-1
s-1
)
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
Quercus douglasii
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Conclusions
• Savanna woodlands need about 80 mm more water to function than nearby grasslands– Trees tap ground-water to sustain themselves during the summer
• Year to year variability in Carbon Uptake is due to length of wet season.– Oaks are risk adverse and experience less inter-annual variability in
NEE than grasslands• Photosynthesis and Respiration are tightly linked
– Oaks need high N levels to attain sufficient rates of carbon assimilation for the short growing season
• Oaks are darker, warmer and use more water than grasslands
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Biometeorology Team
Funding: US DOE/TCP; NASA; WESTGEC; Kearney; Ca Ag Expt Station