Relationships between GPP, Satellite Measures of Greenness and Canopy Water Content with Soil Moisture in Mediterranean-Climate Grassland and Oak Savanna | Zendy

Shishi Liu | Zendy; Oliver A. Chadwick | Zendy; Dar A. Roberts | Zendy; C. J. Still | Zendy

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Relationships between GPP, Satellite Measures of Greenness and Canopy Water Content with Soil Moisture in Mediterranean-Climate Grassland and Oak Savanna

Author(s) -

Shishi Liu,

Oliver A. Chadwick,

Dar A. Roberts,

C. J. Still

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

applied and environmental soil science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.431

H-Index - 23

eISSN - 1687-7675

pISSN - 1687-7667

DOI - 10.1155/2011/839028

Subject(s) - environmental science , water content , grassland , understory , growing season , vegetation (pathology) , mediterranean climate , soil water , canopy , agronomy , hydrology (agriculture) , soil science , geography , geology , medicine , geotechnical engineering , archaeology , pathology , biology

We investigated the impact of soil moisture on gross primary production (GPP), chlorophyll content, and canopy water content represented by remotely sensed vegetation indices (VIs) in an open grassland and an oak savanna in California. We found for the annual grassland that GPP late in the growing season was controlled by the declining soil moisture, but there was a 10–20-day lag in the response of GPP to soil moisture. However, during the early and middle part of the growing season, solar radiation accounted for most of the variation in GPP. In the oak savanna, the grass understory exhibited a similar response, but oak trees were not sensitive to soil moisture in the upper 50 cm of the soil profile. Furthermore, while we found most VIs to be more or less related to soil moisture, the Visible Atmospherically Resistance Index (VARI) was the most sensitive to the change of soil moisture

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