Tropical forests in a changing environment

SJ Wright - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2005 - cell.com
Understanding and mitigating the impact of an ever-increasing population and global
economic activity on tropical forests is one of the great challenges currently facing biologists …

Sensitivity of decomposition rates of soil organic matter with respect to simultaneous changes in temperature and moisture

CA Sierra, SE Trumbore, EA Davidson… - Journal of advances …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition to global environmental change is a
topic of prominent relevance for the global carbon cycle. Decomposition depends on …

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

RJW Brienen, OL Phillips, TR Feldpausch, E Gloor… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Atmospheric carbon dioxide records indicate that the land surface has acted as a strong
global carbon sink over recent decades,, with a substantial fraction of this sink probably …

Interannual variation of terrestrial carbon cycle: Issues and perspectives

S Piao, X Wang, K Wang, X Li, A Bastos… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With accumulation of carbon cycle observations and model developments over the past
decades, exploring interannual variation (IAV) of terrestrial carbon cycle offers the …

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

S Sitch, C Huntingford, N Gedney, PE Levy… - Global change …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This study tests the ability of five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs), forced with
observed climatology and atmospheric CO2, to model the contemporary global carbon …

Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

CE Doughty, DB Metcalfe, CAJ Girardin, FF Amézquita… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
In 2005 and 2010 the Amazon basin experienced two strong droughts, driven by shifts in the
tropical hydrological regime possibly associated with global climate change, as predicted by …

Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends

S Piao, S Sitch, P Ciais, P Friedlingstein… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to evaluate 10 process‐based terrestrial biosphere models
that were used for the IPCC fifth Assessment Report. The simulated gross primary …

Amazon rainforests green‐up with sunlight in dry season

AR Huete, K Didan, YE Shimabukuro… - Geophysical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Metabolism and phenology of Amazon rainforests significantly influence global dynamics of
climate, carbon and water, but remain poorly understood. We analyzed Amazon vegetation …

Progressive forest canopy water loss during the 2012–2015 California drought

GP Asner, PG Brodrick, CB Anderson… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The 2012–2015 drought has left California with severely reduced snowpack, soil moisture,
ground water, and reservoir stocks, but the impact of this estimated millennial-scale event on …

Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle

KW Oleson, GY Niu, ZL Yang… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The Community Land Model version 3 (CLM3) is the land component of the Community
Climate System Model (CCSM). CLM3 has energy and water biases resulting from …