The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

By K. Thonicke, S. Venevsky, Stephen Sitch, W. Cramer. 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Global Pyrogeography: the Current and Future Distribution of Wildfire (2009, methodology): “a complementary method to study the global distribution and effect of fire [15–18].”
Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics (2019, background): “This process is widely believed to lie behind the stimulation in growth observed in old-growth forest stands (5, 6), and has been estimated to account for 60% of the land carbon sink implied by the balance of change in atmospheric and oceanic stocks and emissions (7).”
Landscape--wildfire interactions in southern Europe: implications for landscape management. (2011, methodology): “, 2003) and used in global fire models (Thonicke et al., 2001).”
Simulating Competition and Coexistence between Plant Functional Types in a Dynamic Vegetation Model (2006, background): “In semiarid tropical and subtropical regions, however, fire-return intervals are of the order of 1–12 yr (Thonicke et al. 2001) and fire plays an important role in the evolution of fractional coverage of PFTs.”
Modelling exploration of the future of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) under climate change—Range, abundance, genetic diversity and adaptive response (2010, background): “The vegetation dynamic processes of establishment, mortality and disturbance, including wildfires (Thonicke et al., 2001), are implemented each simulation year.”
Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment (2012, background): “Fire strongly influenced diversity, co-occurrence patterns, and leaf trait means and variances within communities.”
Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California (2018, methodology): “While the model simulates wildfires (Thonicke et al2001), landuse change isnot considered in our analysis.”
Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States (2017, background): “Ignitions are often presumed to be saturated (18, 19), and therefore have limited ability to predict fire activity.”
Vulnerability of Mediterranean Basin ecosystems to climate change and invasion by exotic plant species (2006, methodology): “Climatic factors, expressed as monthly temperature, precipitation and cloudiness, as well as other factors such as fire (Thonicke et al., 2001), and generalized disturbances which can be used to represent land management, directly influence vegetation composition and dynamics.”