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Area of Science:

  • Ecology
  • Plant Physiology
  • Remote Sensing

Background:

  • Water potential is crucial for vegetation function but hard to link to ecosystem water fluxes.
  • Remote sensing can detect vegetation water content, increasing the need to connect it with ecosystem processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and evaluate the link between water potential and water content at the ecosystem scale.
  • To explore the application and limitations of pressure-volume (PV) relationships in ecosystems.
  • To provide a framework for scaling plant water relations from tissue to ecosystem levels.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing theory on pressure-volume (PV) relationships.
  • Generation of plot-scale aboveground vegetation PV curves using equilibrium water potentials and water content.
  • Analysis of data from nine diverse plots, including tropical rainforest, savanna, and temperate forest.

Main Results:

  • Ecosystem capacitance and stored water were found to scale linearly with biomass across different systems.
  • Physiologically accessible water storage and ecosystem hydraulic capacitance did not systematically vary with biomass.
  • A bottom-up scaling approach highlighted the importance of water potential distribution and community-level plant tissue fractions.

Conclusions:

  • Pressure-volume relationships can be applied to ecosystems, but limitations exist due to water quantity variations.
  • The study provides a method to link biophysical processes at the tissue scale to land surface models and remote sensing.
  • Findings are instrumental for bridging the gap between micro-scale plant physiology and macro-scale ecosystem water dynamics.