Assessing potential impacts of climatic change on subalpine forests on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

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	Assessing potential impacts of climatic change on subalpine forests on the eastern Tibetan Plateau
	Wang Xiaodan; Cheng Genwei; Zhong Xianghao
刊名	CLIMATIC CHANGE
	2011-09-01
卷号	108 期号:1-2 页码:225-241
关键词	GAP MODELS SPECIES COMPOSITION MOUNTAIN FORESTS STAND STRUCTURE EUROPEAN ALPS PATCH MODEL VEGETATION TREELINE DYNAMICS CHINA
ISSN号	0165-0009
通讯作者	Wang, XD（王小丹）
英文摘要	Forest gap models have been used widely in the study of forest dynamics, including predicting long-term succession patterns and assessing the potential impacts of climate change on forest structure and composition. However, little effort is devoted to predict forest dynamics in the high elevation areas, although they have the sensitive response to global climate change. In the present study, based on a modified height-diameter function, we developed a new version (FAREAST-GFSM) of the forest patch model, FAREAST for simulating the changes of subalpine forests. The observed data from the Gongga Mt. Alpine Station were also used to test model precision. With the improved performance of FAREAST-GFSM, we explored the impact of three warming scenarios on subalpine forest on the eastern Tibetan plateau within a 100-year period. The study result indicates that the effects of climate change were evident on subalpine forests in the high elevation areas. The response of different species to the warming climate might eventually transform the subalpine Abies fabric forest into Betula utilis forest similar to that which is now widely distributed in the eastern Tibetan Plateau mountainous areas with the relatively lower elevation. Subalpine forests could move to higher and colder areas, which are currently tundra.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine ; Physical Sciences
类目[WOS]	Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
研究领域[WOS]	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
关键词[WOS]	GAP MODELS ; SPECIES COMPOSITION ; MOUNTAIN FORESTS ; STAND STRUCTURE ; EUROPEAN ALPS ; PATCH MODEL ; VEGETATION ; TREELINE ; DYNAMICS ; CHINA
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000294464000012
公开日期	2013-06-25
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/5488]
专题	成都山地灾害与环境研究所_山地表生过程与生态调控重点实验室
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Mt Environm Evolvement & Regulat, Inst Mt Hazards & Environm, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang Xiaodan,Cheng Genwei,Zhong Xianghao. Assessing potential impacts of climatic change on subalpine forests on the eastern Tibetan Plateau[J]. CLIMATIC CHANGE,2011,108(1-2):225-241.
APA	Wang Xiaodan,Cheng Genwei,&Zhong Xianghao.(2011).Assessing potential impacts of climatic change on subalpine forests on the eastern Tibetan Plateau.CLIMATIC CHANGE,108(1-2),225-241.
MLA	Wang Xiaodan,et al."Assessing potential impacts of climatic change on subalpine forests on the eastern Tibetan Plateau".CLIMATIC CHANGE 108.1-2(2011):225-241.