On the need to consider wood formation processes in global vegetation models and a suggested approach

Friend, Andrew D.; Eckes-Shephard, Annemarie H.; Fonti, Patrick; Rademacher, Tim T.; Rathgeber, Cyrille B. K.; Richardson, Andrew D.; Turton, Rachael H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9733-1495. 2019 On the need to consider wood formation processes in global vegetation models and a suggested approach. Annals of Forest Science, 76 (2), 49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0819-x

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Abstract/Summary

Dynamic global vegetation models are key tools for interpreting and forecasting the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climatic variation and other drivers. They estimate plant growth as the outcome of the supply of carbon through photosynthesis. However, growth is itself under direct control, and not simply controlled by the amount of available carbon. Therefore predictions by current photosynthesis-driven models of large increases in future vegetation biomass due to increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO 2 may be significant over-estimations. We describe how current understanding of wood formation can be used to reformulate global vegetation models, with potentially major implications for their behaviour.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0819-x
ISSN:	1286-4560
Additional Keywords:	dynamic global vegetation model, xylogenesis, carbon, source, sink
NORA Subject Terms:	Botany
Date made live:	15 May 2019 10:52 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/523363

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0819-x

ISSN:

1286-4560

Additional Keywords:

dynamic global vegetation model, xylogenesis, carbon, source, sink

NORA Subject Terms:

Botany

Date made live:

15 May 2019 10:52 +0 (UTC)