Friend, Andrew D.;
Eckes-Shephard, Annemarie H.;
Fonti, Patrick;
Rademacher, Tim T.;
Rathgeber, Cyrille B. K.;
Richardson, Andrew D.;
Turton, Rachael H.
On the need to consider wood formation processes in global vegetation models and a suggested approach
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E-Artikel
Titel:
On the need to consider wood formation processes in global vegetation models and a suggested approach
Beteiligte:
Friend, Andrew D.;
Eckes-Shephard, Annemarie H.;
Fonti, Patrick;
Rademacher, Tim T.;
Rathgeber, Cyrille B. K.;
Richardson, Andrew D.;
Turton, Rachael H.
Erschienen:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019
Erschienen in:Annals of Forest Science
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1007/s13595-019-0819-x
ISSN:
1286-4560;
1297-966X
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<jats:p><jats:bold>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 CO</jats:bold><jats:sub>2</jats:sub><jats:bold>may 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.</jats:bold></jats:p>
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