Abstract
Current climate change make it increasingly important to assess the response of forest cover biomass to this change, which in turn determines the possibility of climate stabilization by reducing atmospheric CO2. Climate change projections can been linked to significant changes in water deficits and natural disturbance regimes in forest ecosystems across many parts of the world.Since the carbon-deposing potential of a plant community is determined by the biomass of assimilating organs, we focused in this article on comparative analysis of foliage biomass in the dark-coniferous genus Picea spp. and of leaved genus Quercus spp. in gradients of annual precipitation and winter temperature on the territory of Eurasia. The database for modelling involves 870 and 570 sample plots for spruce and oak correspondingly. When studying changes in the biomass of spruce and oak foliage in the hydrothermal gradients of Eurasia, we obtained statistically reliable, but surprising and paradoxical results. When the temperature increases by 1oC, the most increase in spruce foliage biomass occurs in cold regions with insufficient moisture supply, while oak leaf biomass, on the contrary, has the largest percentage of its decrease. In cold regions, as the transition from dry conditions to wet ones, the percentage of foliage mass in spruce decreases, and in oak increases. When the precipitation increases by 100 mm, there is the opposite patterns for spruce and oak: in warm regions, spruce has a decrease in the percentage of foliage mass, and oak, on the contrary, its increase. In the cold regions, these patterns change to the opposite: the spruce negative percentage changes to positive, and the oak positive percentage changes to negative. This phenomenon seems to be related to the positive ratio of photosynthesis and respiration in the spruce during the winter period when the oak does not have photosynthesis, but only respiration. It seems to be related to the fundamental difference between the winter physiology of evergreen and deciduous species, namely the ability of the former to assimilate atmospheric carbon dioxide and prolong the assimilation process beyond the vegetation period, which is usual for deciduous species. The development of such models for the main forest-forming species of Eurasia allow us to predict changes in the foliage productivity of the forest cover of Eurasia in relation to climate change.
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Claim · model-written summary
With 1oC warming, spruce foliage biomass increased most in cold, moisture deficient regions.
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- spruce foliage biomasse0
- Direction
- increasee0
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- 1oCe0
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- cold regions with insufficient moisture supplye0
PiceaOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“When the temperature increases by 1oC, the most increase in spruce foliage biomass occurs in cold regions with insufficient moisture supply”
t0“Picea spp.”
Claim · model-written summary
With 1oC warming, oak leaf biomass had its largest percentage decrease in cold, dry regions.
QuercusOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“When the temperature increases by 1oC, the most increase in spruce foliage biomass occurs in cold regions with insufficient moisture supply, while oak leaf biomass, on the contrary, has the largest percentage of its decrease.”
t0“Quercus spp.”
Claim · model-written summary
In cold regions, wetter conditions decreased spruce foliage mass percentage.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“In cold regions, as the transition from dry conditions to wet ones, the percentage of foliage mass in spruce decreases”
t0“Picea spp.”
Claim · model-written summary
In cold regions, wetter conditions increased oak foliage mass percentage.
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“and in oak increases.”
t0“Quercus spp.”
Claim · model-written summary
In warm regions, 100 mm more precipitation reduced spruce foliage mass percentage.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“in warm regions, spruce has a decrease in the percentage of foliage mass”
t0“Picea spp.”
Claim · model-written summary
In warm regions, more precipitation increased oak foliage mass percentage.
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e0“and oak, on the contrary, its increase.”
t0“Quercus spp.”
Claim · model-written summary
In cold regions, more precipitation changed spruce foliage percentage response from negative to positive.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“In the cold regions, these patterns change to the opposite: the spruce negative percentage changes to positive”
t0“Picea spp.”
Claim · model-written summary
In cold regions, more precipitation changed oak foliage percentage response from positive to negative.
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“and the oak positive percentage changes to negative.”
t0“Quercus spp.”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors attribute the contrast to winter photosynthesis in spruce but respiration without photosynthesis in oak.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“positive ratio of photosynthesis and respiration in the spruce during the winter period when the oak does not have photosynthesis, but only respiration”
t0“Picea spp.”