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    The role of historical fire disturbance in the carbon dynamics of the pan-boreal region : a process-based analysis

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    2007-06-20
    Author
    Balshi, M. S.  Concept link
    McGuire, A. David  Concept link
    Zhuang, Qianlai  Concept link
    Melillo, Jerry M.  Concept link
    Kicklighter, David W.  Concept link
    Kasischke, E.  Concept link
    Wirth, C.  Concept link
    Flannigan, M.  Concept link
    Harden, J. W.  Concept link
    Clein, Joy S.  Concept link
    Burnside, T. J.  Concept link
    McAllister, J.  Concept link
    Kurz, Werner A.  Concept link
    Apps, M.  Concept link
    Shvidenko, Anatoly  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3505
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    https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JG000380
    DOI
    10.1029/2006JG000380
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     Fire emissions; Ecosystem modeling; Boreal carbon dynamics 
    Abstract
    Wildfire is a common occurrence in ecosystems of northern high latitudes, and changes in the fire regime of this region have consequences for carbon feedbacks to the climate system. To improve our understanding of how wildfire influences carbon dynamics of this region, we used the process-based Terrestrial Ecosystem Model to simulate fire emissions and changes in carbon storage north of 45°N from the start of spatially explicit historically recorded fire records in the twentieth century through 2002, and evaluated the role of fire in the carbon dynamics of the region within the context of ecosystem responses to changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate. Our analysis indicates that fire plays an important role in interannual and decadal scale variation of source/sink relationships of northern terrestrial ecosystems and also suggests that atmospheric CO2 may be important to consider in addition to changes in climate and fire disturbance. There are substantial uncertainties in the effects of fire on carbon storage in our simulations. These uncertainties are associated with sparse fire data for northern Eurasia, uncertainty in estimating carbon consumption, and difficulty in verifying assumptions about the representation of fires that occurred prior to the start of the historical fire record. To improve the ability to better predict how fire will influence carbon storage of this region in the future, new analyses of the retrospective role of fire in the carbon dynamics of northern high latitudes should address these uncertainties.
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    Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research 112 (2007): G02029, doi:10.1029/2006JG000380.
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    Journal of Geophysical Research 112 (2007): G02029
     

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