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  • Atmospheric Science
  • Plant Physiology

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  • Forest canopy temperature (T_can), air temperature (T_air), and air humidity (q_air) are critical for regulating energy and gas exchange between vegetation and the atmosphere.
  • T_air and q_air are dynamically coupled to T_can through surface energy fluxes and atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) development, yet this coupling is often oversimplified.
  • Plant physiology plays a key role in mediating the complex interactions between canopy and atmospheric conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how plant physiology mediates the dynamic coupling between forest canopy temperature and air temperature.
  • To assess the effects of varying plant traits related to water use and thermal regulation on T_can ~ T_air coupling and feedback mechanisms.
  • To challenge the assumption of T_air and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) as independent drivers in empirical studies.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a process-based forest model dynamically coupled with an atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) growth model.
  • Simulated diurnal interactions between the canopy and the atmosphere in a tropical ecosystem.
  • Systematically varied plant traits (water use, thermal regulation) to analyze their impact on T_can ~ T_air relationships, peak T_can, and hysteresis.

Main Results:

  • Conservative water use (reduced transpiration) leads to increased canopy warming, intensifying sensible heat flux, accelerating ABL growth, and raising near-surface temperatures and VPD.
  • Greater water use promotes evaporative cooling, slows ABL development, and moderates thermal and water stress.
  • The slope of the T_can ~ T_air relationship demonstrated surprising insensitivity to different plant water-use strategies.

Conclusions:

  • Forest canopy temperature is not a passive outcome but an active mediator of energy, water, and carbon exchange, regulated by a feedback loop between leaf physiology and atmospheric dynamics.
  • The dynamic coupling between canopy and air temperature is significantly influenced by plant functional traits.
  • Empirical studies using T_can or the T_can ~ T_air relationship as proxies for forest stress must account for this physiological-atmospheric feedback.