Evaluating the responses of forest ecosystems to climate change and CO₂ using dynamic global vegetation models.

ABSTRACT: The climate has important influences on the distribution and structure of forest ecosystems, which may lead to vital feedback to climate change. However, much of the existing work focuses on the changes in carbon fluxes or water cycles due to climate change and/or atmospheric CO ₂, and few studies have considered how and to what extent climate change and CO ₂ influence the ecosystem structure (e.g., fractional coverage change) and the changes in the responses of ecosystems with different characteristics. In this work, two dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs): IAP-DGVM coupled with CLM3 and CLM4-CNDV, were used to investigate the response of the forest ecosystem structure to changes in climate (temperature and precipitation) and CO ₂ concentration. In th

SUBMITTER: Song X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5288257 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature