Forest productivity under climate change: a checklist for evaluating model studies

Reply to comment on “Appropriate experimental ecosystem warming methods by ecosystem, objective, and practicality” by Aronson and McNulty

(2010) Emma L. Aronson et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

A comment on “Appropriate experimental ecosystem warming methods by ecosystem, objective, and practicality” by Aronson and McNulty

(2010) Jeffrey S. Amthor et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Assessing the impact of current and projected climates on Douglas-Fir productivity in British Columbia, Canada, using a process-based model (3-PG)

(2010) Nicholas C. Coops et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Assessing the ability of potential evaporation formulations to capture the dynamics in evaporative demand within a changing climate

(2010) Randall J. Donohue et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Effects of Climate Change and Shifts in Forest Composition on Forest Net Primary Production

(2010) Jyh-Min Chiang et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

CO2 enhancement of forest productivity constrained by limited nitrogen availability

(2010) R. J. Norby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate and hydrological changes in the northeastern United States: recent trends and implications for forested and aquatic ecosystemsThis article is one of a selection of papers from NE Forests 2100: A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Forests of the Northeastern US and Eastern Canada.

(2009) Thomas G. Huntington et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Changes in vegetation in northern Alaska under scenarios of climate change, 2003–2100: implications for climate feedbacks

(2009) E. S. Euskirchen et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Long-term simulation of the effect of climate changes on the growth of main Central-European forest tree species

(2009) Fyodor A. Tatarinov et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Vulnerability of carbon storage in North American boreal forests to wildfires during the 21st century

(2009) M. S. BALSHI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The effect of nitrogen deposition on forest carbon sequestration: a model-based analysis

(2009) S. DEZI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rainfall distribution is the main driver of runoff under future CO2-concentration in a temperate deciduous forest

(2009) SEBASTIAN LEUZINGER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Relative importance of fuel management, ignition management and weather for area burned: evidence from five landscape–fire–succession models

(2009) Geoffrey J. Cary et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire

(2009) Mike D. Flannigan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models

(2009) Nicholas J. Ostle et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Framework for exploration of climatic and landscape controls on catchment water balance, with emphasis on inter-annual variability

(2009) Chatchai Jothityangkoon et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Coppicing shifts CO2 stimulation of poplar productivity to above-ground pools: a synthesis of leaf to stand level results from the POP/EUROFACE experiment

(2009) Marion Liberloo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Lack of direct evidence for the carbon-starvation hypothesis to explain drought-induced mortality in trees

(2009) A. Sala   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought

(2009) H. D. Adams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The carbon budget of Pinus radiata plantations in south-western Australia under four climate change scenarios

(2009) G. Simioni et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Response of the carbon cycle in sub-arctic black spruce forests to climate change: Reduction of a carbon sink related to the sensitivity of heterotrophic respiration

(2008) Masahito Ueyama et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Relating leaf area index of natural eucalypt vegetation to climate variables in southern Australia

(2008) T.W. Ellis et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Response of tree growth to a changing climate in boreal central Canada: A comparison of empirical, process-based, and hybrid modelling approaches

(2008) Martin P. Girardin et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

CBM-CFS3: A model of carbon-dynamics in forestry and land-use change implementing IPCC standards

(2008) W.A. Kurz et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

GLOBAL POTENTIAL NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION PREDICTED FROM VEGETATION CLASS, PRECIPITATION, AND TEMPERATURE

(2008) Stephen Del Grosso et al.   ECOLOGY

Influence of climate change, fire and harvest on the carbon dynamics of black spruce in Central Canada

(2008) Oleg Chertov et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mechanisms linking plant productivity and water status for a temperateEucalyptusforest flux site: analysis over wet and dry years with a simple model

(2008) David A. Pepper et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

An analysis of the sensitivity of sap flux to soil and plant variables assessed for an Australian woodland using a soil–plant–atmosphere model

(2008) Melanie Zeppel et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Simulated response of conterminous United States ecosystems to climate change at different levels of fire suppression, CO2 emission rate, and growth response to CO2

(2008) James M. Lenihan et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Quantifying the response of forest carbon balance to future climate change in Northeastern China: Model validation and prediction

(2008) Changhui Peng et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Impact of changing wood demand, climate and land use on European forest resources and carbon stocks during the 21st century

(2008) JEANNETTE EGGERS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Modeling the effects of fire and climate change on carbon and nitrogen storage in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) stands

(2008) E. A. H. SMITHWICK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Consequences of Considering Carbon–Nitrogen Interactions on the Feedbacks between Climate and the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle

(2008) Andrei P. Sokolov et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Potential future changes of the terrestrial ecosystem based on climate projections by eight general circulation models

(2008) Clement Aga Alo et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change

(2008) W. A. Kurz et al.   NATURE

Global nitrogen deposition and carbon sinks

(2008) Dave S. Reay et al.   Nature Geoscience

Precipitation timing and magnitude differentially affect aboveground annual net primary productivity in three perennial species in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2008) Traesha R. Robertson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Risk of natural disturbances makes future contribution of Canada's forests to the global carbon cycle highly uncertain

(2008) W. A. Kurz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modelling bark beetle disturbances in a large scale forest scenario model to assess climate change impacts and evaluate adaptive management strategies

(2008) Rupert Seidl et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Predicting wood production and net ecosystem carbon exchange of Pinus radiata plantations in south-western Australia: Application of a process-based model

(2007) Guillaume Simioni et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Estimating potential habitat for 134 eastern US tree species under six climate scenarios

(2007) Louis R. Iverson et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Sensitivity of managed boreal forests in Finland to climate change, with implications for adaptive management

(2007) S. Kellomaki et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES