Rabbel, Inken: Analyzing feedbacks in a forest soil-vegetation-atmosphere system. - Bonn, 2019. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/7912,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-54318,
author = {{Inken Rabbel}},
title = {Analyzing feedbacks in a forest soil-vegetation-atmosphere system},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2019,
month = may,

note = {In this study, the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system of a 38 ha forested headwater catchment in the Eifel region (western Germany) was analyzed with the aim to improve the understanding of the impacts of climate forcings and soil water supply on tree/forest water use and growth. The focus species was Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] H. Karst.), a species, which is known to be particularly vulnerable to heat and drought. Tree water use was assessed on the basis of sap flow measurements. The choice of the data processing approach for sap flow measurements has considerable impacts on the resulting estimates of absolute tree water use. Therefore, a comparative study of different data processing approaches was conducted to quantify the uncertainty in sap flow estimates, which is related to the data processing procedure. In a second step, the sap flow series of two plots with contrasting soil moisture regimes were used to derive a new water stress factor and to parameterize the Feddes water stress model for Norway spruce. The onset of drought stress was observed at a root-zone pressure head of -4100 cm water column (-402 kPa). With that, the trees showed a higher drought resistance than previously assumed. Maximum drought stress was determined for a root zone pressure head of -15,000 cm water column (-1471 kPa), while aeration stress was not observed. The newly parameterized water stress function was implemented in the soil hydrological model HYDRUS-1D with the aim to improve site specific water balance simulations. This aim was achieved for a plot with temporarily limited soil water supply. Considering soil moisture patterns and species specific critical limits of soil water supply in the model setup can thus improve the simulation of transpiration fluxes on the catchment scale. Based on this finding, long-term water balance simulations were carried out for 48 plots within the catchment. These and other microsite conditions were set into context with inter-annual growth variations in terms of tree ring data. The data showed that soil water supply strongly affects the climate-growth responsiveness of Norway spruce across different levels of data aggregation. On the regional scale, inter-annual growth variations were better explained by soil water supply than by monthly precipitation sums. Also the formation of growth clusters within the catchment mainly followed spatial patterns of soil water supply. While the driest cluster showed the strongest climate-growth reaction, the climate-growth response of the wettest cluster was almost completely insignificant. Across all investigated microsites within the test-site, the climate-growth response of Norway spruce was directly (simulated soil suction of the root-zone) and indirectly (planting density) related to local soil water supply. Small-scale information on soil water supply can thus help to improve the interpretability of tree ring data and to investigate species-specific growth limitations.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/7912}
}

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