Modeling the History of Terrestrial Carbon Sources and Sinks
Date: Wednesday, September 28 @ 08:45:00 MDT
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by Steve Pacala
We
report modeling experiments with a new global dynamic land model (LM3V), to
reconstruct possible causes of the terrestrial carbon sources and sinks over
the past century. The model is unique,
in that it is capable of representing the global history of land use, including
the management of secondary forests (those forests that have re-grown at least
once following harvest). Several published carbon inventories attribute the
majority of the carbon sink caused by land use in the temperate zone to the
management of secondary forests.
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