Simulating boreal forest carbon dynamics after stand-replacing fire   disturbance: insights from a global process-based vegetation model

doi:10.5194/bg-10-8233-2013

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	Simulating boreal forest carbon dynamics after stand-replacing fire disturbance: insights from a global process-based vegetation model
	Yue, C. ; Ciais, P. ; Luyssaert, S. ; Cadule, P. ; Harden, J. ; Randerson, J. ; Bellassen, V. ; Wang, T. ; Piao, S. L. ; Poulter, B. ; Viovy, N.
刊名	biogeosciences
	2013
关键词	NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION INTERIOR ALASKA JACK PINE WOODY DEBRIS ECOSYSTEM CLIMATE CHRONOSEQUENCE BALANCE CANADA AGE
DOI	10.5194/bg-10-8233-2013
英文摘要	Stand-replacing fires are the dominant fire type in North American boreal forests. They leave a historical legacy of a mosaic landscape of different aged forest cohorts. This forest age dynamics must be included in vegetation models to accurately quantify the role of fire in the historical and current regional forest carbon balance. The present study adapted the global process-based vegetation model ORCHIDEE to simulate the CO2 emissions from boreal forest fire and the subsequent recovery after a stand-replacing fire; the model represents postfire new cohort establishment, forest stand structure and the self-thinning process. Simulation results are evaluated against observations of three clusters of postfire forest chronosequences in Canada and Alaska. The variables evaluated include: fire carbon emissions, CO2 fluxes (gross primary production, total ecosystem respiration and net ecosystem exchange), leaf area index, and biometric measurements (aboveground biomass carbon, forest floor carbon, woody debris carbon, stand individual density, stand basal area, and mean diameter at breast height). When forced by local climate and the atmospheric CO2 history at each chronosequence site, the model simulations generally match the observed CO2 fluxes and carbon stock data well, with model-measurement mean square root of deviation comparable with the measurement accuracy (for CO2 flux similar to 100 g C m(-2) yr(-1), for biomass carbon similar to 1000 g C m(-2) and for soil carbon similar to 2000 g C m(-2)). We find that the current postfire forest carbon sink at the evaluation sites, as observed by chronosequence methods, is mainly due to a combination of historical CO2 increase and forest succession. Climate change and variability during this period offsets some of these expected carbon gains. The negative impacts of climate were a likely consequence of increasing water stress caused by significant temperature increases that were not matched by concurrent increases in precipitation. Our simulation results demonstrate that a global vegetation model such as ORCHIDEE is able to capture the essential ecosystem processes in fire-disturbed boreal forests and produces satisfactory results in terms of both carbon fluxes and carbon-stock evolution after fire. This makes the model suitable for regional simulations in boreal regions where fire regimes play a key role in the ecosystem carbon balance.; Ecology; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; SCI(E); 1; ARTICLE; 12; 8233-8252; 10
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/392196]
专题	城市与环境学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yue, C.,Ciais, P.,Luyssaert, S.,et al. Simulating boreal forest carbon dynamics after stand-replacing fire disturbance: insights from a global process-based vegetation model[J]. biogeosciences,2013.
APA	Yue, C..,Ciais, P..,Luyssaert, S..,Cadule, P..,Harden, J..,...&Viovy, N..(2013).Simulating boreal forest carbon dynamics after stand-replacing fire disturbance: insights from a global process-based vegetation model.biogeosciences.
MLA	Yue, C.,et al."Simulating boreal forest carbon dynamics after stand-replacing fire disturbance: insights from a global process-based vegetation model".biogeosciences (2013).