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Evaluating models of climate and forest vegetation
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Clark, James S. |
| Copyright Year | 1992 |
| Description | Understanding how the biosphere may respond to increasing trace gas concentrations in the atmosphere requires models that contain vegetation responses to regional climate. Most of the processes ecologists study in forests, including trophic interactions, nutrient cycling, and disturbance regimes, and vital components of the world economy, such as forest products and agriculture, will be influenced in potentially unexpected ways by changing climate. These vegetation changes affect climate in the following ways: changing C, N, and S pools; trace gases; albedo; and water balance. The complexity of the indirect interactions among variables that depend on climate, together with the range of different space/time scales that best describe these processes, make the problems of modeling and prediction enormously difficult. These problems of predicting vegetation response to climate warming and potential ways of testing model predictions are the subjects of this chapter. |
| File Size | 1053824 |
| Page Count | 18 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19940026132 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0fv3gq56 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1992-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Environment Pollution Climatology Cycles Forests Climate Water Balance Gas Composition Concentration Composition Albedo Atmospheric Composition Vegetation Trace Contaminants Biosphere Agriculture Trace Elements Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
