Global climate change and carbon balance in forest ecosystems of boreal zones: imitating modeling as a forecast tool

The individually oriented system of the EFIMOD models simulating carbon and nitrogen flows in forest ecosystems has been used for forecasting the response of forest ecosystems to various forest exploitation regimes with climate change. As input data the forest management materials for the Manturovsk...

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Published inIzvestiia Akademii nauk. Seriia biologicheskaia no. 6; p. 719
Main Authors Shanin, V N, Mikhaĭlov, A V, Bykhovets, S S, Komarov, A S
Format Journal Article
LanguageRussian
Published Russia (Federation) 01.11.2010
Subjects
Carbon - metabolism
Climate Change
Ecosystem
Forecasting
Models, Biological
Trees - metabolism
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Summary:The individually oriented system of the EFIMOD models simulating carbon and nitrogen flows in forest ecosystems has been used for forecasting the response of forest ecosystems to various forest exploitation regimes with climate change. As input data the forest management materials for the Manturovskii forestry of the Kostroma region were used. It has been shown that increase of mid-annual temperatures and rainfall influence the redistribution of carbon and nitrogen supply in organic form: supply increase of these elements in phytomass simultaneously with depletion of them in soil occurred. The most carbon and nitrogen accumulation in forest ecosystems occurs in the scenario without felling. In addition, in this scenario only the ecosystems of the modeling territory function as a carbon drain; in the other two scenarios (with selective and total felling) they function as a source of carbon. Climate changes greatly influence the decomposition rate of organic matter in soil, which leads to increased emission of carbonic acid. The second consequence of the increase in the destruction rate is nitrogen increase in the soil in a form available for plants that entails production increase of plantations.
ISSN:1026-3470