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Annemarie Eckes-Shephard

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

Författare

  • 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.

Publiceringsår

2019-06-01

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Annals of Forest Science

Volym

76

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Nyckelord

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

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1286-4560