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Chapin, F.S. III; Woodwell, G.M; Randerson, J.T.; Lovett, G.M.; Rastetter, E.B.; Baldocchi, D.D.; Clark, D.A.;
Harmon, M.E.; Schimel, D.S.; Valentini R.; Wirth C.; Aber J.D.; Cole J.J.; Goulden M.L.; Harden J.W.;
Heimann M.; Howarth R.W.; Matson P.A.; McGuire A.D.; Melillo J.M.; Mooney, H.A.; Neff, J.C.; Houghton,
R.A.; Pace, M.L.; Ryan, M.G.; Running, S.W.; Sala, O.E.; Schlesinger, W.H.; Schulze, E. D. 2005. Reconciling
carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methodology. Ecosystems. 9:1041-1050. doi: 10.1007/
s10021-005-0105-7
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Authors
F. S. Chapin III, G. M. Woodwell, J. Randerson, E. B. Rastetter, G. M. Lovett, Dennis Baldocchi, D. A. Clark,
M. E. Harmon, D. S. Schimel, R. Valentini, C. Wirth, J. D. Aber, J. J. Cole, M. L. Goulden, J. W. Harden, M.
Heimann, Robert W. Howarth, P. A. Matson, A. D. McGuire, Jerry M. Melillo, H. A. Mooney, J. C. Neff, R. A.
Houghton, M. L. Pace, M. G. Ryan, Steven W. Running, Osvaldo E. Sala, W. H. Schlesinger, and E. D. Schulze
'in s titu te o f A rctic Biology, U niversity o f A laska-F airbanks, Fairbanks, A la sk a 99775, USA; ‘ T h e W oods H ole R esearch Center,
W oods Hole, M assachusetts 02543, U SA; ‘D epartm ent o f Earth S ystem Science, U niversity o f California, Irvine, California 92697,
USA; *The E cosystem Center, M arine B iological Laboratory, W oods H ole, M a ssachusetts 02543, USA; ‘in stitu te o f E cosystem Studies,
M illbrook, N e w York 12545, USA; ‘D epartm ent o f E nvironm ental Science, Policy, a n d M anagem ent, U niversity o f California,
B erkeley, California 94720, USA; ‘D epartm ent o f Biology, U niversity o f M issouri, St. Louis, M issouri 63121-4499, USA; ‘D epartm ent
o f Forest Science, Oregon S ta te U niversity, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5752, USA; ‘N ational C enter fo r A tm o sp h e ric Research, Boulder,
Colorado 80305, USA; ' ‘D epartm ent o f Forest Science a n d E nvironm ent, U niversity o f Tuscia, I-Ol 100, Viterbo, Italy; "M ax-P lanck-
In stitu te fo r B iogeochem istry, D-07701 Jena, Germ any; ' ‘ C om plex S y stem s Research Center, U niversity o f N e w H am pshire, Durham,
N e w H a m p sh ire 03824, U SA; ' ‘ US Geological Survey, M enlo Park, California 94025, USA; ' ’'D ep a rtm en t o f E cology a n d Evolutionary
Biology, Cornell U niversity, Ithaca, N e w Y ork 14853, USA; ' ‘D epartm ent o f Geological a n d E nvironm ental Sciences, Stanford Uni
versity, Stanford, California 94305-2115, USA; ' ‘ US Geological Survey, A la ska Cooperative Fish a n d W ildlife R esearch Unit, Uni
versity o f A laska-F airbanks, F airbanks, A la sk a 99775, USA; ' ‘D epartm ent o f B iological Sciences, S ta n fo rd U niversity, Stanford,
California 94305-2115, USA; ' ‘ Geological S ciences a n d E nvironm ental S tu d ie s, U niversity o f Colorado, B oulder, Colorado 80309,
USA; ' ‘R o c k y M ountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526-2098, U SA; “ D epartm ent o f Ecology
a n d E volutionary Biology, B rown U niversity, P rovidence, R h o d e Isla n d 02912, USA; a n d ‘ 'N ich o la s S c h o o l o f the E nvironm ent a n d
Earth, D uke University, D urham , N orth Carolina 27708-0329, USA
A bstract
Recent projections of climatic change have focused a tion in (or loss from [negative sign]) ecosystems. Net
great deal of scientific and public attention on pat ecosystem carbon balance differs from NEP when C
terns of carbon (C) cycling as well as its controls, fluxes other than C fixation and respiration occur, or
particularly the factors that determine whether an w hen inorganic C enters or leaves in dissolved form.
ecosystem is a net source or sink of atmospheric These fluxes include the leaching loss or lateral
carbon dioxide (CO2 ). Net ecosystem production transfer of C from the ecosystem; the emission of
(NEP), a central concept in C-cycling research, has volatile organic C, methane, and carbon monoxide;
been used by scientists to represent two different and the release of soot and CO2 from fire. Carbon
concepts. We propose that NEP be restricted to just fluxes in addition to NEP are particularly important
one of its two original definitions—the imbalance determinants of NECB over long time scales. How
between gross primary production (GPP) and eco ever, even over short time scales, they are important
system respiration (ER). We further propose that in ecosystems such as streams, estuaries, wetlands,
a new term—^net ecosystem carbon balance and cities. Recent technological advances have led
(NECB)—be applied to the net rate of C accumula to a diversity of approaches to the measurement of C
fluxes at different temporal and spatial scales. These
approaches frequently capture different compo
Received 13 Ju ly 2005; accepted 6 J an u a ry 2006; published online 17
N ovem ber 2006. nents of NEP or NECB and can therefore be com
*Corresponding author; e-mail: ferry.chapin@ uaf.edu pared across scales only by carefully specifying the
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1042 F. S. Chapin in and others
fluxes included in the measurements. By explicitly Key words: net ecosystem production; net eco
identifying the fluxes that comprise NECB and other system carbon balance; gross primary production;
components of the C cycle, such as net ecosystem ecosystem respiration; autotrophic respiration;
exchange (NEE) and net biome production (NBP), heterotrophic respiration; net ecosystem exchange;
we can provide a less ambiguous framework for net biome production; net primary production.
understanding and coimnunicating recent changes
in the global C cycle.
NEE
Advectlon
and
d rainage
of CO,
Lateral C transfer
o f Die, DOC & PC
Leaching of
DIC an d DOC
Figure 1. R elationship am ong the carbon (C) fluxes that determ ine n et ecosystem carbon balance (N ECB) (the n et of all C
imports to and exports from the ecosystem ) and the fluxes (in bold) that determ ine n et ecosystem production (N EP). The
box represents the ecosystem . Fluxes contributing to NECB are em issions to or uptake from the atm osphere of carbon
dioxide (C O 2 ) (net ecosystem exchange, or N E E ), m ethane (CH 4 ), carbon m on oxid e (CO), and volatile organic C (VOC);
lateral or leaching fluxes o f dissolved organic and inorganic C (D O C and DIC, respectively); and lateral or vertical
m ovem ent of particulate C (PC) (nongaseous, nondissolved) by processes such as anim al m ovem ent, soot em ission during
fires, water and w in d deposition and erosion, and anthropogenic transport or harvest. Fluxes contributing to N E P are gross
primary production (GPP), autotrophic respiration (AR), and heterotrophic respiration (HR).
On short time scales, GPP and ER (that Is, the Nonetheless, different types of ecosystems may
components of NEP) are the processes that typi be dominated by radically different C fluxes, par
cally consume and produce, respectively, most of ticularly over the long term. There are several
the inorganic C In an ecosystem. In the light, for general reasons why [-NEE], NEP, and NECB may
example, GPP typically exceeds ER, resulting In a diverge from one another.
positive NEP. This reduces the concentration of Because NEE is, by definition, the CO2 flux
CO2 and/or DIC inside the ecosystem and gener from the ecosystem to the atmosphere, [-NEE]
ates a diffusion gradient that causes CO2 to enter diverges from NEP and NECB w hen inorganic C
the ecosystem from the atmosphere (a negative enters or leaves an ecosystem as DIC in the
NEE). Conversely, in the dark, ER typically dom aquatic phase rather than through atmospheric
inates CO2 exchange, resulting in a negative NEP. exchange. Leaching of groundwater, for example,
This Increases the concentration of CO2 and/or generally transfers respiration-derived DIC from
DIC inside the ecosystem and generates a diffusion terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems, causing [-ter
gradient that causes CO2 to move from the eco restrial NEE] to be greater than terrestrial NEP or
system to the atmosphere (a positive NEE). Thus, NECB and [-aquatic NEE] to be less than aquatic
over short time scales, GPP and ER are two of the NEP or NECB. On short time scales, this discrep
key processes that drive NECB, and [-NEE] often ancy is often small, but on an annual basis it can
closely approximates both NEP and NECB in be substantial. About 20% of terrestrial NEP in
many ecosystems (Baldocchl 2003). (Note that, by arctic Alaska, for example, is transferred to aquatic
convention, NEE is opposite in sign to NEP and ecosystems as DIC (Kllng and others 1991). Sim
NECB because NEE is defined by atmospheric ilarly, upwelllng and other vertical or horizontal
scientists as a C input to the atmosphere, whereas mixing of water masses can move DIC among
NEP and NECB are defined by ecologists as C in aquatic ecosystems in patterns that are not re
puts to ecosystems). flected in NEE.
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Because NEP is, by definition, the inorganic C Immediately after fire, [-NEE], NEP, and NECB
exchange of an ecosystem caused by GPP and ER, decline in synchrony because decomposition ex
NECB diverges from NEP w hen C enters or leaves ceeds photosynthesis.
ecosystems in forms other than CO2 or DIC. As efforts develop to integrate estimates of NECB
Other important fluxes include leaching loss from across heterogeneous landscapes containing ter
(or input to) the ecosystem of DOC; emission of restrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems or to
CH4 , CO, and VOCs; erosion; fire; harvest; and compare measurements made at different temporal
other vertical and lateral C transfers (Schlesinger scales, it becomes crucial that the same combina
1997; Stallard 1998; Guenther 2002; Randerson tions of fluxes are being compared. As a start, the
and others 2 0 0 2 ). In streams, rivers, and estuar key C fluxes (for example, GPP, ER, NPP, NEP, and
ies, lateral C transfers among ecosystems often NECB) must have the same units (for example,
dominate NECB (Fisher and Likens 1973; kg C ha“* y“ ') and be calculated in a manner that is
Howarth and others 1996; Richey and others independent of temporal and spatial scale, so esti
2002). Some ecosystems with large lateral C im mates can be readily compared across scales.
ports (for example, cities, estuaries, and some However, as we have pointed out, different types of
lakes) can be a net CO2 source to the atmosphere. ecosystems are dominated by radically different
In lakes, rivers, and oceans, physical processes fluxes, and the techniques used to estimate them
such as CO2 solubility, vertical mixing rates, and are quite scale-dependent. Any estimate of NEP or
sedimentation of particulate organic C (POC) NECB from field observations should therefore
often dominate the C budget (Lovett and others specify explicitly which fluxes are included in the
2006). estimate and which fluxes are unmeasured or as
Net ecosystem carbon balance also diverges sumed to be negligible.
from NEP when inorganic C enters or leaves
ecosystems for reasons other than an imbalance
between GPP and ER. The largest nomespiratory
Clarifying Carbon-cycling Concepts
oxidations of organic m atter to inorganic C are by Although this minireview focuses on NEP and
fire in terrestrial ecosystems and by ultraviolet NECB, similar ambiguities cloud the use of other
radiation in aquatic ecosystems. Some ecosystems central concepts in the C cycle. We offer the fol
accumulate inorganic C—for example, desert lowing conventions in defining some of the central
caliche (typically less than 5 g C m “^ y“ *) concepts and point out unresolved issues that still
(Schlesinger 1985)—or show small gains in inor complicate the use and interpretation of these terms.
ganic C associated with the weathering of car Gross primary production (GPP) is the sum of
bonate rocks (less than 3% of NPP) (Andrews and gross C fixation by autotrophic C-fixing tissues per
Schlesinger 2001). These inorganic C accumula unit ground or water area and time. Because our
tion rates are captured in NECB but not NEP and emphasis here is on the C budget of ecosystems, we
are typically small. include both photosynthesis and chemoautotrophy
The processes responsible for divergence be in GPP. However, because the energy that drives
tween [-NEE], NEP, and NECB change with tem chemoautotrophy is either completely (reduced
poral and spatial scale. The Earth system (The Earth substrate plus oxygen [O2 ] or other oxidants in
plus the atmosphere) has a positive NEE (increase sediments) or partly (O2 or other oxidants in geo
in atmospheric CO2 ) during transitions from glacial thermal vents) derived from photosynthesis, we
to the interglacial conditions due to the recruit recognize that from an energetic perspective che
m ent of C from largely inactive pools, such as the moautotrophy is better classified as a component of
deep ocean and permafrost. Similarly, the positive secondary production, rather than GPP (Howarth
NEE of the Earth system during the Anthropocene and Teal 1980; Howarth 1984). Although chemo
reflects the movement from geologic sources (coal autotrophy is a small component of CO2 fixation
and oil) to the atmosphere. This movement has globally, locally it can be a very important com
been partially offset by a positive NEP and NECB ponent of the C budget (Howarth 1984; Jannasch
(and a negative NEE) in forests and oceans (Schi- and Mottl 1985).
mel 1995). On time scales of a century or more Autotrophic respiration (AR) is the sum of respi
vegetation development during succession is asso ration (CO2 production) by all living parts of primary
ciated with a positive NEP and NECB (and a neg producers per unit ground or water area and time.
ative NEE). During fires, there is a brief time when The extent to which rhizosphere microbes and
NEP is zero (no photosynthesis or respiration), but mycorrhizae contribute to measured "root respira
NECB decreases and NEE increases dramatically. tion” is uncertain. It is even unclear w hether these
1046 F. S. Chapin HI and others
root-associated microbial fluxes should be consid respiration (Aubinet and others 2003). When
ered part of autotrophic or heterotrophic respiration. advectlon occurs, NEE differs from the vertical
Lumping rhizosphere microbes, mycorrhizal fungi, canopy flux measured by eddy covariance. Net
and bacteria of N-fixing nodules with other hetero- ecosystem exchange differs from NEP in being
trophs is conceptually cleaner, but their impact on opposite in sign, in omitting gains and losses of
plant nutrition and C balance and the measurement respiration-derived DIC, and in including nonre-
of their respiration rates are difficult to separate from spiratory CO2 fluxes such as those from fire or
other root functions. ultraviolet oxidation of organic m atter (Figure 1).
Heterotrophic respiration (HR) is the respiration Net ecosystem exchange approaches NEP (=
rate of heterotrophic organisms (animals and mi GPP - ER) (but is opposite in sign), when these
crobes) summed per unit ground or water area and other fluxes and changes in inorganic C storage
time. within the ecosystem are small.
Ecosystem respiration (ER) is the respiration of Net primary production (NPP) is GPP - AR. It
all organisms summed per unit ground or water includes not only the growth of primary producers
area and time. (biomass accumulation and tissue turnover above
Net ecosystem production (NEP) is GPP minus and belowground in terrestrial ecosystems) but also
ER. In pelagic systems of lakes and oceans NEP can the C transfer to herbivores and root symbionts (for
be measured directly by enclosing the ecosystem in example, mycorrhizal fungi), the excretion of or
a jar or measuring diel changes in dissolved oxygen ganic C from algae, and the production of root
or CO2 (Howarth and Michaels 2000; Hanson and exudates and plant VOCs (Long and others 1989;
others 2003). Interestingly, the m easurement of Clark and others 2001; Kesselmeier and others
NEP is more robust than calculations of GPP and 2002). Published summaries of data on terrestrial
ER, which depend on the assmnption that respi NPP are, however, usually based on data from lit-
ration measured in the light is the same as that terfall and aboveground biomass accumulation and
measured in the dark, a relationship that appears to therefore are not closely aligned to the concept of
be variable (Roberts and others forthcoming). NPP as the imbalance between GPP and AR (Clark
In contrast to aquatic ecosystems, the structural and others 2001). Estimates of NPP in aquatic
complexity of terrestrial ecosystems creates chal ecosystems based on ' “C are intermediate to the
lenges for the direct m easurem ent of NEP, so ter theoretical rates of NPP and GPP because phyto
restrial ecologists have focused on estimates of GPP plankton respire some but not all of the newly
and ER based on gas exchange. Calculation of NEP fixed, ' “‘C-labeled organic C (Peterson 1980;
from these fluxes assumes that foliar respiration Howarth and Michaels 2000).
and the temperature response of ER are the same Net ecosystem carbon balance (NECB) is the net
during the day as at night. These assumptions are rate of organic plus inorganic C accumulation in (or
questionable because photorespiration in chloro- loss from [negative sign]) an ecosystem, regardless
plasts, which occurs only in the light, is compen of the temporal and spatial scale at which it is
sated to an unknow n extent by down-regulation of estimated. It can be measured directly in terrestrial
mitochondrial respiration in the light (Kirschbaum ecosystems, particularly over long time scales, as
and Farquhar 1984) or by the use of the respired the change in total C in the ecosystem over the
CO2 in photosynthesis (Loreto and others 1999, measured time interval. In early successional and
2001). These uncertainties are analogous to those managed ecosystems, changes in C stocks may be
confronted by aquatic ecologists in calculating GPP detectable in years to decades (Matson and others
and ER from NEP. 1997; Richter and others 1999), but in most other
Net ecosystem exchange (NEE) is the net CO2 ecosystems C stocks change too slowly to be de
exchange with the atmosphere—that is, the verti tected easily, given their substantial spatial vari
cal and lateral CO2 flux from the ecosystem to the ability.
atmosphere (Baldocchl 2003). There are occasions Net biome production (NBP) is NECB estimated
of high atmospheric stability w hen CO2 exchange at large temporal and spatial scales. The concept
by the ecosystem may not reach the eddy covari was developed to account for m any of the fluxes
ance measurement system; in this case, a stor seldom measured by NEE and explicitly includes
age term is added, which is the vertical integral of disturbances such as fire that remove C from the
dC/dt, measured with a CO2 profile system at two system via nonrespiratory processes in addition to
points in time. The storage term can also be used to disturbances that redistribute C from the biomass
identify lateral advectlon, if the buildup of CO2 in into detrital pools (Schulze and Heimann 1998;
the stand is less than would be expected from soil Schulze and others 1999, 2000). Net biome
Carbon-cycle Concepts, Terms, and Methods 1047
Figure 2. The relationship of carbon (C) fluxes to current m easurem ent approaches. The background landscape image
represents daily average gross primary produrtion (GPP) in M ontana, USA, com puted from MODIS satellite estimates of
intercepted photosynthetically active radiation data at 2 5 0 -m spatial resolution. Also sh o w n are som e of the vertical and
horizontal C fluxes that add com plexity (and are n o t incorporated) in this satellite-based C-flux estimate, including
erosion, inputs and export o f C as m eth an e (CH 4 ), carbon m onoxide (CO), and volatile organic C (VOC), and lateral flow
of respired carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) dow nslope, all fartors that can confound m easurem ents, depending on the scale. A
floating aquatic cham ber captures aquatic n et ecosystem exchange (NEE); this (w ith a n egative sign) is equivalent to net
ecosystem production (NEP) (w hich is equal to gross primary production [GPP] m in u s ecosystem respiration [ER] plus CO2
derived from terrestrial dissolved inorganic C (DIC) that entered the lake in groundw ater. A soil chamber captures
below ground com ponents o f terrestrial heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration. A n eddy covariance tow er captures the
vertical com ponent of terrestrial NEE; this (w ith a negative sign) is equivalent to NEP, w h e n corrected for canopy storage,
the advective flow of CO 2 from the forest to the valley, and leaching loss of respiration-derived DIC to the lake. The
boundary-layer C budget, m easured by aircraft and com puted from differences in upw ind and d ow nw ind CO2 inventories,
provides a sam ple o f landscape-integrated (terrestrial and aquatic) NEE; it is also affected by rem ote sources, local dis
turbance fluxes and urban pollution; if lateral fluxes of DIC are small, NEE (w ith a n egative sign) closely approximates
NEP. N et ecosystem carbon balance (NECB) can be estim ated from sequential m easurem ents of ecosystem C stocks over
time, but these changes are often too sm all to be detected except in very h om ogen eou s ecosystem s that are rapidly gaining
or losing C. M easured flu xes can be compared w ith m od el inversions that calculate NECB at large scales (equivalent to net
biom e production [NBP]) from the geographic patterns of n et CO2 sources or sinks that w ou ld be required to produce
observed patterns of atm ospheric CO 2 transport. Because there is rarely a o n e-to -o n e correspondence b etw een m ea
surem ent techniques and conceptual fluxes, precision is required in defining both the conceptual fluxes and w hat is being
m easured as a function o f m eth od and scale.
production can thus be viewed as the spatial and short-term flux measurements and long-term
temporal average of NECB over a heterogeneous C accumulation estimates, whereas NBP applies
landscape: explicitly to large scales (Schulze and others 2002;
Ciais and others 2005). One of the greatest chal
f f NECB(x, t)dxdt lenges in refining the global C budget is to scale
T A____________________
NBP = (3 ) from short-term measurements on relatively
T -A homogeneous flat terrain to large topographically
where A is the land surface area considered, T is the heterogeneous regions, where long-term C budgets
temporal extent of the integration, and x and t are are strongly influenced by spatial interactions
the spatial and temporal coordinates. Because among ecosystems (such as lateral air drainage and
NECB can be estimated at any temporal and spatial erosion) and rare events (such fire and insect out
scale, it facilitates cross-scale comparisons between breaks).
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