A novel method for assessing climate change impacts in ecotron experiments.

ABSTRACT: Ecotron facilities allow accurate control of many environmental variables coupled with extensive monitoring of ecosystem processes. They therefore require multivariate perturbation of climate variables, close to what is observed in the field and projections for the future. Here, we present a new method for creating realistic climate forcing for manipulation experiments and apply it to the UHasselt Ecotron experiment. The new methodology uses data derived from the best available regional climate model projection and consists of generating climate forcing along a gradient representative of increasingly high global mean air temperature anomalies. We first identified the best-performing regional climate model simulation for the ecotron site from the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment

SUBMITTER: Vanderkelen I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7481170 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature