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Annemarie Eckes-Shephard

Annemarie Eckes-Shephard

Researcher

Annemarie Eckes-Shephard

On the need to consider wood formation processes in global vegetation models and a suggested approach

Author

  • Andrew D. Friend
  • Annemarie H. Eckes-Shephard
  • Patrick Fonti
  • Tim T. Rademacher
  • Cyrille B.K. Rathgeber
  • Andrew D. Richardson
  • Rachael H. Turton

Summary, in English

Key message: Dynamic global vegetation models are key tools for interpreting and forecasting the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climatic variation and other drivers. They estimate plant growth as the outcome of the supply of carbon through photosynthesis. However, growth is itself under direct control, and not simply controlled by the amount of available carbon. Therefore predictions by current photosynthesis-driven models of large increases in future vegetation biomass due to increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2may be significant over-estimations. We describe how current understanding of wood formation can be used to reformulate global vegetation models, with potentially major implications for their behaviour.

Publishing year

2019-06-01

Language

English

Publication/Series

Annals of Forest Science

Volume

76

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Keywords

  • Carbon
  • Dynamic global vegetation model
  • Sink
  • Source
  • Xylogenesis

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1286-4560