Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

KH Erb, T Kastner, C Plutzar, ALS Bais, N Carvalhais… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Carbon stocks in vegetation have a key role in the climate system,,,. However, the
magnitude, patterns and uncertainties of carbon stocks and the effect of land use on the …

Forest productivity under climate change: a checklist for evaluating model studies

BE Medlyn, RA Duursma… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is highly likely to impact on forest productivity over the next century. The
direction and magnitude of change are uncertain because many factors are changing …

Fire as the dominant driver of central Canadian boreal forest carbon balance

B Bond-Lamberty, SD Peckham, DE Ahl, ST Gower - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in climate, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and fire regimes
have been occurring for decades in the global boreal forest,,, with future climate change …

Causes for the increases in both evapotranspiration and water yield over vegetated mainland China during the last two decades

S Sun, Y Liu, H Chen, W Ju, CY Xu, Y Liu… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Quantifying the contributions of climate and vegetation to the dynamics of evapotranspiration
(ET) and water yield (ie, precipitation minus ET) will help us better understand the changes …

China's terrestrial carbon balance: Contributions from multiple global change factors

H Tian, J Melillo, C Lu, D Kicklighter… - Global …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The magnitude, spatial, and temporal patterns of the terrestrial carbon sink and the
underlying mechanisms remain uncertain and need to be investigated. China is important in …

Dynamic global vegetation modeling: quantifying terrestrial ecosystem responses to large-scale environmental change

IC Prentice, A Bondeau, W Cramer, SP Harrison… - Terrestrial ecosystems in …, 2007 - Springer
15.7 Summary and Conclusions DGVMs exploit the power of modern computers and
computational methods to yield a predictive description of land ecosystem processes that …

A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

CR Schwalm, CA Williams, K Schaefer… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Our current understanding of terrestrial carbon processes is represented in various models
used to integrate and scale measurements of CO2 exchange from remote sensing and other …

Comparing and evaluating process‐based ecosystem model predictions of carbon and water fluxes in major European forest biomes

P Morales, MT Sykes, IC Prentice, P Smith… - Global change …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Process‐based models can be classified into:(a) terrestrial biogeochemical models (TBMs),
which simulate fluxes of carbon, water and nitrogen coupled within terrestrial ecosystems …

Climatic controls on the carbon and water balances of a boreal aspen forest, 1994–2003

AG Barr, TA Black, EH Hogg, TJ Griffis… - Global Change …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The carbon and water budgets of boreal and temperate broadleaf forests are sensitive to
interannual climatic variability and are likely to respond to climate change. This study …

Biomass turnover time in terrestrial ecosystems halved by land use

KH Erb, T Fetzel, C Plutzar, T Kastner, C Lauk… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The terrestrial carbon cycle is not well quantified. Biomass turnover time is a crucial
parameter in the global carbon cycle,,, and contributes to the feedback between the …