Modelling sun-induced fluorescence for improved evaluation of forest carbon flux (GPP): Case study of tropical deciduous forest, India

Sanjiv K. Sinha, Hitendra Padalia, N.R. Patel and Prakash Chauhan

Ecological Modelling, 2021, vol. 449, issue C

Abstract: Reliable estimation of forest carbon fluxes in space and time is a major challenge. Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) has been found closely linked to vegetation photosynthetic activity. But the application of SIF for direct estimation of Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) is not well investigated. In this study, we demonstrate the estimation of GPP for tropical deciduous forests located in North Western Himalayan Foothills in India using simulated SIF and fluorescence quantum yield (ФF) through a modified Light Use Efficiency (LUEf) model. SIF simulated using Soil Canopy Observation, Photochemistry, and Energy fluxes (SCOPE) model provided the estimate of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) intercepted by the canopy foliage and ФF. ФF, measured through the Pulse-Amplitude Modulated (PAM) fluorometer quantifies the emission rate of SIF per unit of the absorbed photon. The integration of these factors into the proposed LUEf model offered real-time photosynthetic efficiency and improved the estimate of GPP of the deciduous forest. The results show that GPP estimated from SIF (SIFTOC) was closely related to GPPEddy with R2 = 0.91 (p<0.05) with RMSE= 29.24 gC m−2 month−1 than GPP estimated from LUE model (R2=0. 79, p<0.05) and RMSE = 96.25 gC m−2 month−1). GPPMODIS underestimated the GPP with a non-significant correlation to GPPEddy for all the months with R2=0. 36 (p<0.05) and RMSE = 188.96 gC m−2 month−1. The results obtained are promising and the proposed model can be used for estimating carbon fluxes of forests over a larger spatial scale using satellite-derived SIF.

Keywords: Eddy covariance; Fluorescence quantum yield; Light use efficiency; SCOPE; PAM Fluorometer; Radiative Transfer Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109552

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