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Challenges and opportunities in land surface modelling of savanna ecosystems
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- Whitley, Rhys (author)
- Macquarie University, Sydney
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- Beringer, Jason (author)
- University of Western Australia, Crawley
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- Hutley, Lindsay B. (author)
- Charles Darwin University
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- Abramowitz, Gabriel (author)
- University of New South Wales
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- De Kauwe, Martin G (author)
- Macquarie University, Sydney
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- Evans, Bradley (author)
- University of Sydney
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- Haverd, Vanessa (author)
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra
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- Li, Longhui (author)
- University of Technology Sydney
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- Moore, Caitlin (author)
- Monash University
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- Ryu, Youngryel (author)
- Seoul National University
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- Scheiter, Simon (author)
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
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- Schymanski, Stanislaus J. (author)
- ETH Zürich
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- Smith, Benjamin (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science,Faculty of Science
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- Wang, Ying Ping (author)
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra
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- Williams, Mathew (author)
- University of Edinburgh
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- Yu, Qiang (author)
- University of Technology Sydney
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- 2017-10-24
- 2017
- English 22 s.
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In: Biogeosciences. - : Copernicus GmbH. - 1726-4170 .- 1726-4189. ; 14:20, s. 4711-4732
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- The savanna complex is a highly diverse global biome that occurs within the seasonally dry tropical to sub-tropical equatorial latitudes and are structurally and functionally distinct from grasslands and forests. Savannas are open-canopy environments that encompass a broad demographic continuum, often characterised by a changing dominance between C3-tree and C4-grass vegetation, where frequent environmental disturbances such as fire modulates the balance between ephemeral and perennial life forms. Climate change is projected to result in significant changes to the savanna floristic structure, with increases to woody biomass expected through CO2 fertilisation in mesic savannas and increased tree mortality expected through increased rainfall interannual variability in xeric savannas. The complex interaction between vegetation and climate that occurs in savannas has traditionally challenged terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs), which aim to simulate the interaction between the atmosphere and the land surface to predict responses of vegetation to changing in environmental forcing. In this review, we examine whether TBMs are able to adequately represent savanna fluxes and what implications potential deficiencies may have for climate change projection scenarios that rely on these models. We start by highlighting the defining characteristic traits and behaviours of savannas, how these differ across continents and how this information is (or is not) represented in the structural framework of many TBMs. We highlight three dynamic processes that we believe directly affect the water use and productivity of the savanna system: phenology, root-water access and fire dynamics. Following this, we discuss how these processes are represented in many current-generation TBMs and whether they are suitable for simulating savanna fluxes.Finally, we give an overview of how eddy-covariance observations in combination with other data sources can be used in model benchmarking and intercomparison frameworks to diagnose the performance of TBMs in this environment and formulate road maps for future development. Our investigation reveals that many TBMs systematically misrepresent phenology, the effects of fire and root-water access (if they are considered at all) and that these should be critical areas for future development. Furthermore, such processes must not be static (i.e. prescribed behaviour) but be capable of responding to the changing environmental conditions in order to emulate the dynamic behaviour of savannas. Without such developments, however, TBMs will have limited predictive capability in making the critical projections needed to understand how savannas will respond to future global change.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Naturgeografi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Physical Geography (hsv//eng)
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Haverd, Vanessa
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Li, Longhui
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Ryu, Youngryel
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Smith, Benjamin
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Wang, Ying Ping
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