European forests under global climate change: Review of tree growth processes, crises and management strategies

Z Vacek, S Vacek, J Cukor - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing global climate change is challenging all sectors, forestry notwithstanding. On
the one hand, forest ecosystems are exposed to and threatened by climate change, but on …

The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe

JO Kaplan, KM Krumhardt, N Zimmermann - Quaternary science reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Humans have transformed Europe's landscapes since the establishment of the first
agricultural societies in the mid-Holocene. The most important anthropogenic alteration of …

Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

YS Lin, BE Medlyn, RA Duursma, IC Prentice… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Stomatal conductance (gs) is a key land-surface attribute as it links transpiration, the
dominant component of global land evapotranspiration, and photosynthesis, the driving …

Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model

S Sitch, B Smith, IC Prentice, A Arneth… - Global change …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Lund–Potsdam–Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ) combines
process‐based, large‐scale representations of terrestrial vegetation dynamics and land …

Special paper: a global biome model based on plant physiology and dominance, soil properties and climate

IC Prentice, W Cramer, SP Harrison, R Leemans… - Journal of …, 1992 - JSTOR
A model to predict global patterns in vegetation physiognomy was developed from
physiological considerations influencing the distributions of different functional types of …

Projecting the future distribution of European potential natural vegetation zones with a generalized, tree species‐based dynamic vegetation model

T Hickler, K Vohland, J Feehan… - Global Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To assess the extent to which climate change might cause changes in potential natural
vegetation (PNV) across Europe. Location Europe. Method We parameterized a generalized …

Los ecosistemas forestales y el secuestro de carbono ante el calentamiento global

JA Pardos - Monografías INIA. Serie Forestal (España), 2010 - agris.fao.org
Spanish; Castilian. El presente trabajo pretende ofrecer una visión panorámica de los
efectos del incremento de CO2 en la atmósfera (en relación con el calentamiento global y …

Representation of vegetation dynamics in the modelling of terrestrial ecosystems: comparing two contrasting approaches within European climate space

B Smith, IC Prentice, MT Sykes - Global ecology and biogeography, 2001 - JSTOR
1 Advances in dynamic ecosystem modelling have made a number of different approaches
to vegetation dynamics possible. Here we compare two models representing contrasting …

Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia

JR Marlon, PJ Bartlein, C Carcaillet, DG Gavin… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Large, well-documented wildfires have recently generated worldwide attention, and raised
concerns about the impacts of humans and climate change on wildfire regimes. However …

Terrestrial vegetation and water balance—hydrological evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model

D Gerten, S Schaphoff, U Haberlandt, W Lucht… - Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
Earth's vegetation plays a pivotal role in the global water balance. Hence, there is a need to
model dynamic interactions and feedbacks between the terrestrial biosphere and the water …