EGU23-6641, updated on 30 Aug 2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6641
EGU General Assembly 2023
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The temperature sensitivity of mono- and sesquiterpene emissions from terrestrial vegetation: Insights from a meta-analysis

Efstratios Bourtsoukidis1,2, Andrea Pozzer2,1, Jonathan Williams2,1, David Makowski3, Josep Peñuelas4,5, Vasileios Matthaios6,7, Theo Economou1, Georgia Lazoglou1, Ana Maria Yañez-Serrano8, Anke Nölscher9, Jos Lelieveld2,1, Philippe Ciais10,1, Mihalis Vrekoussis11,12,1, Nikos Daskalakis11, and Jean Sciare1
Efstratios Bourtsoukidis et al.
  • 1The Cyprus Institute, Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), Nicosia, Cyprus (e.bourtsoukidis@cyi.ac.cy)
  • 2Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Mainz, Germany
  • 3French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), Unversity Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech (UMR MIA), Paris, France
  • 4Center for Research Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
  • 5Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
  • 6School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • 7Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
  • 8Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Barcelona, Spain
  • 9Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental research, Bayreuth, Germany
  • 10Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 11Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  • 12Center of Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), University of Bremen; Bremen, Germany

The emission of mono- and sesquiterpenes from terrestrial vegetation plays a significant role in ecological interactions and atmospheric chemistry. Previous research has suggested that global emissions of these hydrocarbons are largely driven by responses to abiotic stress and can be simulated using a fixed exponential relationship (β coefficient) between different forest ecosystems and environmental conditions. However, our meta-analysis of published emission data (89 studies/835 β coefficients) reveals that the relationship between mono- and sesquiterpene emissions and temperature is more complex than previously thought. We have found that co-occurring environmental stresses can amplify the temperature sensitivity of monoterpene emissions, which is primarily related to the specific plant functional type (PFT). In contrast, the temperature sensitivity of sesquiterpene emissions decreases over the years. On average, warmer ecosystems appear more sensitive, indicating that plants adjust their emission rates in response to thermal stress. When a PFT-dependent β coefficient for monoterpenes was implemented in a biogenic emission model and coupled with a chemistry-climate model, it was found that atmospheric processes are highly sensitive to this coefficient and subject to amplified variations under rising temperatures.

How to cite: Bourtsoukidis, E., Pozzer, A., Williams, J., Makowski, D., Peñuelas, J., Matthaios, V., Economou, T., Lazoglou, G., Yañez-Serrano, A. M., Nölscher, A., Lelieveld, J., Ciais, P., Vrekoussis, M., Daskalakis, N., and Sciare, J.: The temperature sensitivity of mono- and sesquiterpene emissions from terrestrial vegetation: Insights from a meta-analysis, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-6641, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6641, 2023.