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Responses of Terrestrial Ecosystems’ Net Primary Productivity to Future Regional Climate Change in China

The impact of regional climate change on net primary productivity (NPP) is an important aspect in the study of ecosystems’ response to global climate change. China’s ecosystems are very sensitive to climate change owing to the influence of the East Asian monsoon. The Lund–Potsdam–Jena Dynamic Global...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Dongsheng, Wu, Shaohong, Yin, Yunhe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23593325
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060849
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Wu, Shaohong
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description The impact of regional climate change on net primary productivity (NPP) is an important aspect in the study of ecosystems’ response to global climate change. China’s ecosystems are very sensitive to climate change owing to the influence of the East Asian monsoon. The Lund–Potsdam–Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model for China (LPJ-CN), a global dynamical vegetation model developed for China’s terrestrial ecosystems, was applied in this study to simulate the NPP changes affected by future climate change. As the LPJ-CN model is based on natural vegetation, the simulation in this study did not consider the influence of anthropogenic activities. Results suggest that future climate change would have adverse effects on natural ecosystems, with NPP tending to decrease in eastern China, particularly in the temperate and warm temperate regions. NPP would increase in western China, with a concentration in the Tibetan Plateau and the northwest arid regions. The increasing trend in NPP in western China and the decreasing trend in eastern China would be further enhanced by the warming climate. The spatial distribution of NPP, which declines from the southeast coast to the northwest inland, would have minimal variation under scenarios of climate change.
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spelling pubmed-36239142013-04-16 Responses of Terrestrial Ecosystems’ Net Primary Productivity to Future Regional Climate Change in China Zhao, Dongsheng Wu, Shaohong Yin, Yunhe PLoS One Research Article The impact of regional climate change on net primary productivity (NPP) is an important aspect in the study of ecosystems’ response to global climate change. China’s ecosystems are very sensitive to climate change owing to the influence of the East Asian monsoon. The Lund–Potsdam–Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model for China (LPJ-CN), a global dynamical vegetation model developed for China’s terrestrial ecosystems, was applied in this study to simulate the NPP changes affected by future climate change. As the LPJ-CN model is based on natural vegetation, the simulation in this study did not consider the influence of anthropogenic activities. Results suggest that future climate change would have adverse effects on natural ecosystems, with NPP tending to decrease in eastern China, particularly in the temperate and warm temperate regions. NPP would increase in western China, with a concentration in the Tibetan Plateau and the northwest arid regions. The increasing trend in NPP in western China and the decreasing trend in eastern China would be further enhanced by the warming climate. The spatial distribution of NPP, which declines from the southeast coast to the northwest inland, would have minimal variation under scenarios of climate change. Public Library of Science 2013-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3623914/ /pubmed/23593325 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060849 Text en © 2013 Zhao et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Zhao, Dongsheng
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Responses of Terrestrial Ecosystems’ Net Primary Productivity to Future Regional Climate Change in China
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title_fullStr Responses of Terrestrial Ecosystems’ Net Primary Productivity to Future Regional Climate Change in China
title_full_unstemmed Responses of Terrestrial Ecosystems’ Net Primary Productivity to Future Regional Climate Change in China
title_short Responses of Terrestrial Ecosystems’ Net Primary Productivity to Future Regional Climate Change in China
title_sort responses of terrestrial ecosystems’ net primary productivity to future regional climate change in china
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23593325
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060849
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