Table 2.
Sensitivity of gross primary production (GPP), ecosystem respiration (RE) and net ecosystem production (NEP) to temperature and precipitation during 1982–2010, as calculated by Equation 1 in the ‘Materials and methods’ section.
| Temperature (Tg C/°C) | Precipitation (Tg C/100 mm) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climatic region | GPP | RE | NEP | GPP | RE | NEP |
| Temperate continental (I) | 2.9 | 11.0 | –8.0 | 119.3 | 56.5 | 62.6 |
| Temperate monsoonal (II) | 17.7 | 27.8 | –10.1 | 116.2 | 58.8 | 57.4 |
| High-cold Tibetan Plateau (III) | 16.2 | 21.1 | –4.9 | 14.5 | 13.4 | 1.1 |
| Subtropical–tropical monsoonal (IV) | 78.1 | 119.8 | –41.8 | 10.2 | –6.8 | 17.0 |
| China | 70.5 | 132.1 | –61.6 | 252.4 | 135.5 | 116.8 |