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Global distribution pattern in characteristics of gross primary productivity response to soil water availability

2025· article· en· W4411737383 on OpenAlexaff
Shanning Bao, Nuno Carvalhais, Jian Xu, J.M. Chen, Yang Lei, Gegen Tana, Changgui Lin, Jiancheng Shi

Bibliographic record

VenueAgricultural and Forest Meteorology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPlant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrimary productivityProductivityEnvironmental sciencePrimary productionDistribution (mathematics)Hydrology (agriculture)Soil scienceMathematicsEcologyGeologyEcosystemBiologyEconomicsGeotechnical engineering

Abstract

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Understanding how carbon assimilation rates respond to water availability is crucial for diagnosing global carbon and water cycles. This study aims to investigate characteristics and drivers of gross primary productivity (GPP) responses to soil water availability using three parameters from a light-use-efficiency (LUE) model: W I , k W and α W , representing the inflection point, slope and lag effect of GPP response to soil water availability changes, respectively. We followed a hybrid modeling approach coupling an artificial neural network with the LUE model to derive model parameters and examine intricate relationships between these parameters and features characterizing climate, vegetation, nutrient deposition, soil properties and elevation across 196 eddy covariance sites. Relationships between the LUE model parameters and observed ecosystem properties were analyzed using partial dependence plots and Shapley additive explanation dependence plots. Our results revealed significant statistical differences in parameters across plant functional types. Specifically, forests exhibited lower inflection points, responding more steeply and immediately to water availability changes, contrasting with smoother and lagged responses from open shrubs. Vegetation seasonality, represented by variability of enhanced vegetation index (EVI) and seasonal EVI, was the most influential noncategorical factor, followed by soil properties. Notably, the relationships were predominantly nonlinear. Additionally, older forest ecosystems generally showed lower vulnerability while responding more steeply to relative soil water availability changes than younger forests. While aridity was less influential on parameter variability than anticipated, aridity seasonality was a primary driver for the inflection point. High temperatures and substantial diurnal and annual temperature ranges were linked to pronounced lag effects. Despite these findings, challenges remain regarding model accuracy on annual scales, parameter uncertainties and interactions between features. Overall, this study underscores the spatial heterogeneity of GPP responses to soil water availability and highlights the importance of considering variability in model parameters and GPP sensitivities across space and time.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.003

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.003
GPT teacher head0.185
Teacher spread0.182 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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