rpmodel (version 1.2.3)

ftemp_inst_rd: Calculates the temperature response of dark respiration

Description

Given the dark respiration at the reference temperature 25 degress Celsius, this function calculates its temperature-scaling factor following Heskel et al. 2016.

Usage

ftemp_inst_rd(tc)

Value

A numeric value for \(fr\)

Arguments

tc

Temperature (degrees Celsius)

Details

To correct for effects by temperature Heskel et al. 2016, and given the reference temperature \(T0 =\) 25 deg C, this calculates the temperature scaling factor to calculate dark respiration at temperature \(T\) (argument tc) as: $$ fr = exp( 0.1012 (T0-T) - 0.0005(T0^2 - T^2) ) $$ where \(T\) is given in degrees Celsius.

References

Heskel, M., O’Sullivan, O., Reich, P., Tjoelker, M., Weerasinghe, L., Penillard, A.,Egerton, J., Creek, D., Bloomfield, K., Xiang, J., Sinca, F., Stangl, Z., Martinez-De La Torre, A., Griffin, K., Huntingford, C., Hurry, V., Meir, P., Turnbull, M.,and Atkin, O.: Convergence in the temperature response of leaf respiration across biomes and plant functional types, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 3832–3837, doi:10.1073/pnas.1520282113,2016.

Examples

## Relative change in Rd going (instantaneously, i.e. not 
## acclimatedly) from 10 to 25 degrees (percent change):
print( (ftemp_inst_rd(25)/ftemp_inst_rd(10)-1)*100 )