Simulating Vegetation DYnamics : The MC1 Dynamic Global Vegetation Model.
Title:
Simulating Vegetation DYnamics : The MC1 Dynamic Global Vegetation Model.
Author:
Bachelet, Dominique.
ISBN:
9781119011736
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Series:
Geophysical Monograph Ser. ; v.213
Geophysical Monograph Ser.
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I General Description of the Model MC1 -- Chapter 1 History and General Description of the Dynamic Global Vegetation Model MC1 -- ABSTRACT -- 1.1. MODEL HISTORY -- 1.2. MC1 MODEL DESCRIPTION -- 1.3. INPUT DATA -- 1.4. MC1 RUN PROTOCOL -- 1.5. THE FIRE FORECAST MODEL -- 1.6. THE NEXT GENERATION -- MC2, C++ IMPLEMENTATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 Historical Climate and Suppression Effects on Simulated Fire and Carbon Dynamics in the Conterminous United States -- ABSTRACT -- 2.1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.2. METHODS -- 2.3. RESULTS -- 2.4. DISCUSSION -- 2.5. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Challenges and Limitations of Using a DGVM for Local to Regional Applications -- ABSTRACT -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. SCALE-RELATED CHALLENGES -- 3.3. OTHER MORE GENERAL (LESS SCALE-DEPENDENT) CHALLENGES -- 3.4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 The Making of a Dynamic General Vegetation Model, MC1 -- ABSTRACT -- 4.1. RATIONALE FOR BUILDING DYNAMIC GLOBAL VEGEGATION MODELS -- 4.2. GENERAL CONCEPT USED TO BUILD DYNAMIC GLOBAL VEGETATION MODELS -- 4.3. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON BIOGEOGRAPHY -- 4.4. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON BIOGEOCHEMISTRY -- 4.5. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON DISTURBANCE -- 4.6. DGVM CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION -- 4.7. SCALING ISSUES: VEGETATION CHANGE, WILDFIRES, AND COARSE CLIMATE GRIDS -- 4.8. CONCLUSIONS-CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part II Examples of Projects Using MC1 at Various Spatial Scales -- Chapter 5 A Brief Description of the VINCERA Project -- Vulnerability and Impacts of North American Forests to Climate Change: Ecosystem Responses and Adaptation -- ABSTRACT -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. METHODS -- 5.3. RESULTS -- 5.4. DISCUSSION -- 5.5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.
Chapter 6 Continent-wide Simulations of a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model over the United States and Canada under Nine AR4 Future Scenarios -- ABSTRACT -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. METHODS -- 6.3. RESULTS -- 6.4. DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 Drivers of Future Ecosystem Change in the US Pacific Northwest: The Role of Climate, Fire, and Nitrogen -- ABSTRACT -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION -- 7.2. METHODS -- 7.3. RESULTS -- 7.4. DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Application of MC1 to Wind Cave National Park: Lessons from a Small-Scale Study -- ABSTRACT -- 8.1. INTRODUCTION -- 8.2. METHODS -- 8.3. RESULTS -- 8.4. DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Simulating Effects of Climate and Vegetation Change on Distributions of Martens and Fishers in the Sierra Nevada, California, Using Maxent and MC1 -- ABSTRACT -- 9.1. INTRODUCTION -- 9.2. METHODS -- 9.3. RESULTS -- 9.4. DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part III Packaging MC1 Results to Increase Its Usability by Managers -- Chapter 10 Using a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model to Help Inform Management Decisions -- ABSTRACT -- 10.1. INTRODUCTION -- 10.2. DEVELOPING CLIMATE-INFORMED STSMs -- 10.3. cSTSM MODEL APPLICATION IN CENTRAL OREGON -- 10.4. cSTSM MODEL APPLICATION IN THE WASHINGTON COAST RANGE -- 10.5. COMPARING RESULTS ACROSS LANDSCAPES -- 10.6. FUTURE WORK -- 10.7. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 Bringing MC1 Model Results to Data Basin to Facilitate Access, Distribution, and Interpretation -- ABSTRACT -- 11.1. INTRODUCTION -- 11.2. MC1: DATA BASIN GALLERIES -- 11.3. MC1 IN DATA BASIN GATEWAYS -- 11.4. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Appendix Publications and Reports Featuring MC1 -- Glossary -- Index -- Supplemental Images -- EULA.
Abstract:
MC1 is a widely used dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) that has been used to simulate potential vegetation shifts in National Parks (NPs) such as Wind Cave NP and Yosemite NP, across various states such as California and Alaska, over the entire continent of North America, and even over the entire globe, under a variety of climate change scenarios. Global Vegetation Dynamics: Concepts and Applications in the MC1 model describes the creation in the mid-1990s, architecture, uses, and limitations of the MC1 DGVM that is being used by an increasing number of research groups around the world. The scientific foundation of most models is often poorly documented and difficult to access, and a centralized source of information for MC1, including the complete list of over eighty papers and reports with MC1 results will be useful to scientists and users who want to better understand the model and the output it generates. The topics in this volume include general descriptions of the original model design, including the fire model, which was the first of its kind among dynamic global vegetation models; a brief history of the model creation; summaries of model results at the continental (North America), regional (Pacific Northwest), and local (Wind Cave NP and Sierra Nevada) scales; a description of its use to transform a state and transition model into its climate-smart version to help managers prepare for climate change challenges; and the description of an on-line tool (databasin.org) that provides snapshots as well as animated time series of its results. Finally, a complete bibliography (as of spring 2015) lists over 80 publications that include MC1 results. Global Vegetation Dynamics: Concepts and Applications in the MC1 model will be a valuable resource for students and researchers in the fields of climate change science, conservation science,
and biogeochemistry and ecology, as well as for land managers looking for a better understanding of the projections of climate change impacts and of the tools that have been developed to produce them.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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