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Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

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  • Belinda E. Medlyn

    (Macquarie University
    University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment)

  • Sönke Zaehle

    (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)

  • Martin G. De Kauwe

    (Macquarie University)

  • Anthony P. Walker

    (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

  • Michael C. Dietze

    (Boston University)

  • Paul J. Hanson

    (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

  • Thomas Hickler

    (Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) & Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
    Goethe University)

  • Atul K. Jain

    (University of Illinois)

  • Yiqi Luo

    (University of Oklahoma)

  • William Parton

    (Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University)

  • I. Colin Prentice

    (Macquarie University
    AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment and Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment)

  • Peter E. Thornton

    (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

  • Shusen Wang

    (Natural Resources Canada)

  • Ying-Ping Wang

    (CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere Flagship)

  • Ensheng Weng

    (Princeton University)

  • Colleen M. Iversen

    (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

  • Heather R. McCarthy

    (University of Oklahoma)

  • Jeffrey M. Warren

    (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

  • Ram Oren

    (Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
    Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU))

  • Richard J. Norby

    (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Abstract

The recent FACE model–data synthesis project used data from two FACE experiments to assess land ecosystem models. This Perspective details the 'assumption-centered' approach used to identify and evaluate the causes of model differences.

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  • Belinda E. Medlyn & Sönke Zaehle & Martin G. De Kauwe & Anthony P. Walker & Michael C. Dietze & Paul J. Hanson & Thomas Hickler & Atul K. Jain & Yiqi Luo & William Parton & I. Colin Prentice & Peter E, 2015. "Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 5(6), pages 528-534, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:5:y:2015:i:6:d:10.1038_nclimate2621
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2621
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    1. Lai, Chengguang & Sun, Haowei & Wu, Xushu & Li, Jun & Wang, Zhaoli & Tong, Hongfu & Feng, Jiajin, 2024. "Water availability may not constrain vegetation growth in Northern Hemisphere," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 291(C).
    2. Di Tian & Zhengbing Yan & Bernhard Schmid & Jens Kattge & Jingyun Fang & Benjamin D. Stocker, 2024. "Environmental versus phylogenetic controls on leaf nitrogen and phosphorous concentrations in vascular plants," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-12, December.
    3. Yue Li & Lei Zhou & Shaoqiang Wang & Yonggang Chi & Jinghua Chen, 2018. "Leaf Temperature and Vapour Pressure Deficit (VPD) Driving Stomatal Conductance and Biochemical Processes of Leaf Photosynthetic Rate in a Subtropical Evergreen Coniferous Plantation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-13, November.

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