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Markku Rummukainen. Foto.

Markku Rummukainen

Professor

Markku Rummukainen. Foto.

Vegetation-Climate Feedbacks Enhance Spatial Heterogeneity of Pan-Amazonian Ecosystem States Under Climate Change

Författare

  • Minchao Wu
  • Benjamin Smith
  • Guy Schurgers
  • Anders Ahlström
  • Markku Rummukainen

Summary, in English

Amazonian ecosystems range from rainforest to open dryland vegetation, with a following decrease in biomass along the moisture gradient. Biomass can vary greatly at the ecological transition zone between grass dominated savannahs and the forest. It is not well understood if the transition zone could expand under climate change, and thereby reduce ecosystem stability and carbon storage in biomass. Here, we quantify such changes by using a high-resolution regional Earth system model under RCP 8.5 climate scenario. We disentangle the effects of climate, CO2, and land use by considering vegetation-climate feedbacks. Our results suggest that future climate change combined with elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration tends to induce a larger spatial gradient of ecosystem states, increasing the transition area by ∼110% at the end of the century. Vegetation feedbacks generally amplify the climate effect by intensifying the climate-induced warming and drought, further enhancing spatial heterogeneity.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES)
  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)

Publiceringsår

2021

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Geophysical Research Letters

Volym

48

Issue

8

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Ämne

  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Nyckelord

  • above-ground biomass
  • Amazonian ecosystems
  • spatial heterogeneity
  • vegetation feedback

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0094-8276