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Research Project: Experimentally Assessing and Modeling the Impact of Climate and Management on the Resiliency of Crop-Weed-Soil Agro-Ecosystems

Location: Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory

Title: From remotely sensed solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part I—Harnessing theory

Author
item SUN, YING - Cornell University
item WEN, JIAMING - Cornell University
item GU, LIANHONG - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
item VAN DER TOL, CHRISTIAAN - University Of Twente
item PORCAR-CASTELL, ALBERT - University Of Helsinki
item JOINER, JOANNA - National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA)
item Chang, Christine
item MAGNEY, TROY - University Of California, Davis
item WANG, LIXIN - Indiana University-Purdue University
item HU, LEIQIU - University Of Alabama
item RASCHER, UWE - Forschungszentrum Juelich Gmbh
item ZARCO-TEJADA, PABLO - University Of Melbourne
item BARRETT, CHRISTOPHER - Cornell University
item LAI, JAIMENG - Cornell University
item HAN, JIMEI - Cornell University

Submitted to: Global Change Biology
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/8/2022
Publication Date: 2/17/2023
Citation: Sun, Y., Wen, J., Gu, L., Van Der Tol, C., Porcar-Castell, A., Joiner, J., Chang, C.Y., Magney, T.D., Wang, L., Hu, L., Rascher, U., Zarco-Tejada, P., Barrett, C.B., Lai, J., Han, J. 2023. Transforming ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part I—Harnessing theory. Global Change Biology. 29(11):2926-2952. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16634.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16634

Interpretive Summary: This review paper outlines the state of the art, challenges and next steps required to accelerate the development of an emerging remote sensing technology (solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, or SIF) for widespread use across diverse research sectors. This effort outlines the theoretical basis of SIF and the current state-of-the-art of SIF research, introduces an analytical framework to model terrestrial vegetation informed by SIF, and identifies open research challenges for the application of SIF to ecology, agriculture, hydrology, climate, and socioeconomics, as well as actionable solutions to tackle these challenges.

Technical Abstract: The past two decades have witnessed a rapid growth in research using remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF). An explosion in availability of SIF data at increasingly higher spatial and temporal resolution has sparked applications in diverse research sectors (e.g., ecology, agriculture, hydrology, climate, socioeconomics). These applications must deal with complexities caused by tremendous variations in scales and impacts of interacting and superimposing plant physiology and three-dimensional vegetation structure on SIF emission. At present, these complexities have not been overcome. To advance future research, this review aims to 1) develop an analytical framework for inferring terrestrial vegetation structure and functions, 2) synthesize progresses and identify challenges in SIF research via the lens of multi-sector applications, and 3) map out actionable solutions to tackle these challenges and offer our vision for research priorities over the next 5-10 years based on the develop analytical framework.