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Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4077-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4077-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
Data description paper
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07 Sep 2022
Data description paper |  | 07 Sep 2022

Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research

Jing M. Chen, Rong Wang, Yihong Liu, Liming He, Holly Croft, Xiangzhong Luo, Han Wang, Nicholas G. Smith, Trevor F. Keenan, I. Colin Prentice, Yongguang Zhang, Weimin Ju, and Ning Dong

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Green leaves contain chlorophyll pigments that harvest light for photosynthesis and also emit chlorophyll fluorescence as a byproduct. Both chlorophyll pigments and fluorescence can be measured by Earth-orbiting satellite sensors. Here we demonstrate that leaf photosynthetic capacity can be reliably derived globally using these measurements. This new satellite-based information overcomes a bottleneck in global ecological research where such spatially explicit information is currently lacking.
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