Annemarie Eckes-Shephard
Researcher
On the need to consider wood formation processes in global vegetation models and a suggested approach
Author
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