ArticlePlant, cell & environment2012
Carbonyl sulfide (COS) as a tracer for canopy photosynthesis, transpiration and stomatal conductance: potential and limitations.
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- Gross Primary Productivity of Four European Ecosystems Constrained by Joint COGeophysical research letters · 2019Article
- Soil carbonyl sulfide exchange in relation to microbial community composition: insights from a managed grassland soil amendment experiment.Soil biology & biochemistry · 2019Article
- Soil exchange rates of COS and COThe ISME journal · 2019Article
- Silicon Confers Soybean Resistance to Salinity Stress Through Regulation of Reactive Oxygen and Reactive Nitrogen Species.Frontiers in plant science · 2019Article
- Sun-induced fluorescence and gross primary productivity during a heat wave.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Eddy covariance carbonyl sulphide flux measurements with a quantum cascade laser absorption spectrometer.Atmospheric measurement techniques · 2017Article
- Bi-directional COS exchange in bryophytes challenges its use as a tracer for gross primary productivity.The New phytologist · 2017Article
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- In situ soil COS exchange of a temperate mountain grassland under simulated drought.Oecologia · 2017Article
- The many meanings of gross photosynthesis and their implication for photosynthesis research from leaf to globe.Plant, cell & environment · 2015Article
- Sources and sinks of carbonyl sulfide in an agricultural field in the Southern Great Plains.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014Article
- PTR-MS in Italy: a multipurpose sensor with applications in environmental, agri-food and health science.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2013Review
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Abstract
The theoretical basis for the link between the leaf exchange of carbonyl sulfide (COS), carbon dioxide (CO(2)) and water vapour (H(2)O) and the assumptions that need to be made in order to use COS as a tracer for canopy net photosynthesis, transpiration and stomatal conductance, are reviewed. The ratios of COS to CO(2) and H(2)O deposition velocities used to this end are shown to vary with the ratio of the internal to ambient CO(2) and H(2)O mole fractions and the relative limitations by boundary layer, stomatal and internal conductance for COS. It is suggested that these deposition velocity ratios exhibit considerable variability, a finding that challenges current parameterizations, which treat these as vegetation-specific constants. COS is shown to represent a better tracer for CO(2) than H(2)O. Using COS as a tracer for stomatal conductance is hampered by our present poor understanding of the leaf internal conductance to COS. Estimating canopy level CO(2) and H(2)O fluxes requires disentangling leaf COS exchange from other ecosystem sources/sinks of COS. We conclude that future priorities for COS research should be to improve the quantitative understanding of the variability in the ratios of COS to CO(2) and H(2)O deposition velocities and the controlling factors, and to develop operational methods for disentangling ecosystem COS exchange into contributions by leaves and other sources/sinks. To this end, integrated studies, which concurrently quantify the ecosystem-scale CO(2), H(2)O and COS exchange and the corresponding component fluxes, are urgently needed.
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