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DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13504
论文题名:
Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years
作者: Knapp A.K.; Avolio M.L.; Beier C.; Carroll C.J.W.; Collins S.L.; Dukes J.S.; Fraser L.H.; Griffin-Nolan R.J.; Hoover D.L.; Jentsch A.; Loik M.E.; Phillips R.P.; Post A.K.; Sala O.E.; Slette I.J.; Yahdjian L.; Smith M.D.
刊名: Global Change Biology
出版年: 2017
卷: 23, 期:5
起始页码: 1774
结束页码: 1782
语种: 英语
英文关键词: climate extremes ; drought ; field experiments ; precipitation regimes ; wet years
英文摘要: Intensification of the global hydrological cycle, ranging from larger individual precipitation events to more extreme multiyear droughts, has the potential to cause widespread alterations in ecosystem structure and function. With evidence that the incidence of extreme precipitation years (defined statistically from historical precipitation records) is increasing, there is a clear need to identify ecosystems that are most vulnerable to these changes and understand why some ecosystems are more sensitive to extremes than others. To date, opportunistic studies of naturally occurring extreme precipitation years, combined with results from a relatively small number of experiments, have provided limited mechanistic understanding of differences in ecosystem sensitivity, suggesting that new approaches are needed. Coordinated distributed experiments (CDEs) arrayed across multiple ecosystem types and focused on water can enhance our understanding of differential ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation extremes, but there are many design challenges to overcome (e.g., cost, comparability, standardization). Here, we evaluate contemporary experimental approaches for manipulating precipitation under field conditions to inform the design of ‘Drought-Net’, a relatively low-cost CDE that simulates extreme precipitation years. A common method for imposing both dry and wet years is to alter each ambient precipitation event. We endorse this approach for imposing extreme precipitation years because it simultaneously alters other precipitation characteristics (i.e., event size) consistent with natural precipitation patterns. However, we do not advocate applying identical treatment levels at all sites – a common approach to standardization in CDEs. This is because precipitation variability varies >fivefold globally resulting in a wide range of ecosystem-specific thresholds for defining extreme precipitation years. For CDEs focused on precipitation extremes, treatments should be based on each site's past climatic characteristics. This approach, though not often used by ecologists, allows ecological responses to be directly compared across disparate ecosystems and climates, facilitating process-level understanding of ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation extremes. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
资助项目: Knapp, A.K. ; Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State UniversityUnited States ; 电子邮件: aknapp@colostate.edu
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/60969
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作者单位: Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States; National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD, United States; Centre for Catchments and Urban Water Research, Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Gaustadalleen 21, Oslo, Norway; Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC30-2020, Albuquerque, NM, United States; Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue Climate Change Research Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States; Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada; US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, United States; Department of Disturbance Ecology, University of Bayreuth, BayCEER, Bayreuth, Germany; Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, United States; Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States; School of Life Sciences and School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States; Facultad de Agronomía, IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Cátedra de Ecología. Av. San Martín 4453, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Knapp A.K.,Avolio M.L.,Beier C.,et al. Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years[J]. Global Change Biology,2017-01-01,23(5)
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