Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4375745 | Ecological Modelling | 2015 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
A rapid synergistic approach is suggested that enables interactions between climate variables and their intra-annual variability to estimate NPP. This is a useful alternative to traditional empirical models that control NPP with the most limiting climate variable. The meta-model performed reasonably well for estimating total NPP for future climate change and CO2 scenarios. However, species-specific NPP estimates were unsatisfactory, implying that the synergistic approach cannot account for species specific dynamics. Comparison between the meta-model and LPJ-GUESS at the European scale showed that additional environmental variables (e.g. solar radiation) would be necessary to improve the meta-model.
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Authors
Florian Sallaba, Dörte Lehsten, Jonathan Seaquist, Martin T. Sykes,