A process-based model and simulation system of dynamic change and spatial variation in large-scale terrestrial ecosystems

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.202108.040

Abstract

Abstract: More attention has been paid to the monitoring, assessment, prediction, early warning and sustainable management of regional ecological environment and the changes of ecosystem state in recent years. It is an important scientific and technological task to develop quantitative methods and numerical simulation techniques for ecosystem modelling, and to construct the continental scale numerical simulator with the characteristics of multi-process coupling, multi-technology integration, and multi-objective application for stimulating research on ecosystem and global change and its resources, environment and disaster effects, based on the in-depth understanding of the components, processes, functions, patterns, and their interaction mechanism of terrestrial ecosystem. Here, we reviewed the current status and future direction of terrestrial ecosystem models, and discussed the conceptual framework of developing the simulation system of dynamic change and spatial variation in large-scale terrestrial ecosystems and its resource and environment effect, as well as basic issues on the function orientation and structure design of the simulation system, which would provide reference for constructing Chinese terrestrial ecosystem numerical simulator.

Key words: macroecosystem science, ecosystem science, large-scale terrestrial ecosystem, ecosystem model, terrestrial ecosystem numerical simulator

YU Gui-rui, ZHAGN Li, HE Hong-lin, YANG Meng. A process-based model and simulation system of dynamic change and spatial variation in large-scale terrestrial ecosystems[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2021, 32(8): 2653-2665.

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