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@ARTICLE{Forstner:903129,
author = {Forstner, Veronika and Groh, Jannis and Vremec, Matevz and
Herndl, Markus and Vereecken, Harry and Gerke, Horst H. and
Birk, Steffen and Pütz, Thomas},
title = {{R}esponse of water fluxes and biomass production to
climate change in permanent grassland soil ecosystems},
journal = {Hydrology and earth system sciences},
volume = {25},
number = {12},
issn = {1027-5606},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-04853},
pages = {6087-6106},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Effects of climate change on the ecosystem productivity and
water fluxes have been studied in various types of
experiments. However, it is still largely unknown whether
and how the experimental approach itself affects the results
of such studies. We employed two contrasting experimental
approaches, using high-precision weighable monolithic
lysimeters, over a period of 4 years to identify and compare
the responses of water fluxes and aboveground biomass to
climate change in permanent grassland. The first,
manipulative, approach is based on controlled increases of
atmospheric CO2 concentration and surface temperature. The
second, observational, approach uses data from a space-for
time substitution along a gradient of climatic conditions.
The Budyko framework was used to identify if the soil
ecosystem is energy limited or water limited. Elevated
temperature reduced the amount of non-rainfall water,
particularly during the growing season in both approaches.
In energy-limited grassland ecosystems, elevated temperature
increased the actual evapotranspiration and decreased
aboveground biomass. As a consequence, elevated temperature
led to decreasing seepage rates in energy-limited systems.
Under water-limited conditions in dry periods, elevated
temperature aggravated water stress and, thus, resulted in
reduced actual evapotranspiration. The already small seepage
rates of the drier soils remained almost unaffected under
these conditions compared to soils under wetter conditions.
Elevated atmospheric CO2 reduced both actual
evapotranspiration and aboveground biomass in the
manipulative experiment and, therefore, led to a clear
increase and change in seasonality of seepage. As expected,
the aboveground biomass productivity and ecosystem
efficiency indicators of the water-limited ecosystems were
negatively correlated with an increase in aridity, while the
trend was unclear for the energy-limited ecosystems. In both
experimental approaches, the responses of soil water fluxes
and biomass production mainly depend on the ecosystems’
status with respect to energy or water limitation. To
thoroughly understand the ecosystem response to climate
change and be able to identify tipping points, experiments
need to embrace sufficiently extreme boundary conditions and
explore responses to individual and multiple drivers, such
as temperature, CO2 concentration, and precipitation,
including non-rainfall water. In this regard, manipulative
and observational climate change experiments complement one
another and, thus, should be combined in the investigation
of climate change effects on grassland.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {2173 - Agro-biogeosystems: controls, feedbacks and impact
(POF4-217)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2173},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000726412400001},
doi = {10.5194/hess-25-6087-2021},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/903129},
}