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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 1998, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (6): 658-664.

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Modelings of terrestrial carbon cycling

Wang Yexu, Zhao Shidong   

  1. Commission for Integrated Survey of Natural Resources, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100101
  • Received:1998-05-11 Revised:1998-09-28 Online:1998-11-25 Published:1998-11-25

Abstract: Terrestrial carbon cycling is one of the important components in the research of global change, and simulation modeling is a necessary method in understanding the carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystem.The key processes in the modeling of carbon cycling include the response and feedback of the structure, function, composition and distribution of terrestrial ecosystem to climate change, elevated CO2 concentration and human induced land use/cover change.Biogeographical and biogeochemical model are the two kinds of models in modeling carbon cycling, which differentiate in the way of model establishment, character and domain of model application.The developmental direction of carbon cycling modeling is to combine the elements of both kinds of models toward the formulation of global dynamic model of carbon cycling.

Key words: Terrestrial ecosystem, Carbon cycling, Model