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Sun‐Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Photosynthesis, and Light Use Efficiency of a Soybean Field from Seasonally Continuous Measurements
Author(s) -
Miao Guofang,
Guan Kaiyu,
Yang Xi,
Bernacchi Carl J.,
Berry Joseph A.,
DeLucia Evan H.,
Wu Jin,
Moore Caitlin E.,
Meacham Katherine,
Cai Yaping,
Peng Bin,
Kimm Hyungsuk,
Masters Michael D.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: biogeosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2169-8961
pISSN - 2169-8953
DOI - 10.1002/2017jg004180
Subject(s) - photosynthetically active radiation , eddy covariance , chlorophyll fluorescence , primary production , atmospheric sciences , photosynthesis , canopy , growing season , environmental science , field experiment , photosynthetic efficiency , ecosystem , chemistry , mathematics , physics , botany , ecology , biology , statistics
Abstract Recent development of sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) technology is stimulating studies to remotely approximate canopy photosynthesis (measured as gross primary production, GPP). While multiple applications have advanced the empirical relationship between GPP and SIF, mechanistic understanding of this relationship is still limited. GPP:SIF relationship, using the standard light use efficiency framework, is determined by absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (APAR) and the relationship between photosynthetic light use efficiency (LUE) and fluorescence yield (SIF y ). While previous studies have found that APAR is the dominant factor of the GPP:SIF relationship, the LUE:SIF y relationship remains unclear. For a better understanding of the LUE:SIF y relationship, we deployed a ground‐based system (FluoSpec2), with an eddy‐covariance flux tower at a soybean field in the Midwestern U.S. during the 2016 growing season to collect SIF and GPP data simultaneously. With the measurements categorized by plant growth stages, light conditions, and time scales, we confirmed that a strong positive GPP:SIF relationship was dominated by an even stronger linear SIF:APAR relationship. By normalizing both GPP and SIF by APAR, we found that under sunny conditions our soybean field exhibited a clear positive SIF y :APAR relationship and a weak negative LUE:SIF y relationship, opposite to the positive LUE:SIF y relationship reported previously in other ecosystems. Our study provides a first continuous SIF record over multiple growth stages for agricultural systems and reveals a distinctive pattern related to the LUE:SIF y relationship compared with previous work. The observed positive relationship of SIF y :APAR at the soybean site provides new insights of the previous understanding on the SIF's physiological implications.