Vegetation productivity in natural vs.cultivated systems along water availability gradients in the dry subtropics

The dry subtropics are subject to a rapid expansion of crops and pastures over vast areas of natural woodlands and savannas. In this paper, we explored the effect of this transformation on vegetation productivity (magnitude, and seasonal and long-term variability) along aridity gradients which span...

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Otros Autores: Baldi, Germán, Texeira, Marcos, Murray, Francisco, Jobbágy, Esteban G.
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520 |a The dry subtropics are subject to a rapid expansion of crops and pastures over vast areas of natural woodlands and savannas. In this paper, we explored the effect of this transformation on vegetation productivity (magnitude, and seasonal and long-term variability) along aridity gradients which span from semiarid to subhumid conditions, considering exclusively those areas with summer rains (minor to 66%). Vegetation productivity was characterized with the proxy metric Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) (2000 to 2012 period), on 6186 natural and cultivated sampling points on five continents, and combined with a global climatology database by means of additive models for quantile regressions. Globally and regionally, cultivation amplified the seasonal and inter-annual variability of EVI without affecting its magnitude. Natural and cultivated systems maintained a similar and continuous increase of EVI with increasing water availability, yet achieved through contrasting ways. In natural systems, the productivity peak and the growing season length displayed concurrent steady increases with water availability, while in cultivated systems the productivity peak increased from semiarid to dry-subhumid conditions, and stabilized thereafter giving place to an increase in the growing season length towards wetter conditions. Our results help to understand and predict the ecological impacts of deforestation on vegetation productivity, a key ecosystem process linked to a broad range of services. 
653 |a VEGETATION 
653 |a CLIMATE 
653 |a DATA BASE DEFORESTATION 
653 |a ECOSYSTEM 
653 |a GROWING SEASON 
653 |a HUMAN 
653 |a HUMAN CELL 
653 |a MODEL PRODUCTIVITY 
653 |a SAMPLING 
653 |a GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING 
653 |a SUMMER VEGETATION 
653 |a WATER AVAILABILITY 
653 |a PLANT DEVELOPMENT 
653 |a CLIMATE CHANGE 
653 |a COMPARATIVE STUDY CROP 
653 |a METABOLISM 
653 |a PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 
653 |a TROPIC CLIMATE 
653 |a WATER 
653 |a CLIMATE CHANGE 
653 |a CROPS AGRICULTURAL 
653 |a ECOSYSTEM 
700 1 |9 26877  |a Baldi, Germán  |u Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Grupo de Estudios Ambientales (IMASL). San Luis, Argentina.  |u CONICET. San Luis, Argentina 
700 1 |9 32541  |a Texeira, Marcos  |u Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información. Buenos Aires, Argentina.  |u CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Laboratorio de Análisis Regional y Teledetección (LART) Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
700 1 |9 70389  |a Murray, Francisco  |u Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Grupo de Estudios Ambientales (IMASL). San Luis, Argentina.  |u Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Centro Regional La Pampa – San Luis. San Luis, Argentina. 
700 1 |9 7390  |a Jobbágy, Esteban G.  |u Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Grupo de Estudios Ambientales (IMASL). San Luis, Argentina. 
773 0 |t Plos One  |g Vol.11, no.12 (2016), e0168168, tbls., grafs. 
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