Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence exhibits a universal relationship with gross primary productivity across a wide variety of biomes

In our recent study in Global Change Biology (Li et al., ), we examined the relationship between solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) measured from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and gross primary productivity (GPP) derived from eddy covariance flux towers across the globe, and we discovered that there is a nearly universal relationship between SIF and GPP across a wide variety of biomes. This finding reveals the tremendous potential of SIF for accurately mapping terrestrial photosynthesis globally.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Global Change Biology

• Publication date

  2019-01-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/gcb.14565PMID 30614142
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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