Current Carbon Balance of the Forested Area in Sweden and its Sensitivity to Global Change as Simulated by Biome-BGC |
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Authors: | Fredrik Lagergren Achim Grelle Harry Lankreijer Meelis Mölder Anders Lindroth |
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Institution: | 1. Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Geobiosphere Science Centre, Lund University, S?lvegatan 12, 223 62, Lund, Sweden 2. Department of Ecology and Environmental Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7042, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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Abstract: | Detailed information from the Swedish National Forest Inventory was used to simulate the carbon balance for Sweden by the
process-based model Biome-BGC. A few shortcomings of the model were identified and solutions to those are proposed and also
used in the simulations. The model was calibrated against CO2 flux data from 3 forests in central Sweden and then applied to the whole country divided into 30 districts and 4 age classes.
Gross primary production (GPP) ranged over districts and age classes from 0.20 to 1.71 kg C m−2 y−1 and net ecosystem production (NEP) ranged from −0.01 to 0.44. The 10- to 30-year age class was the strongest carbon sink
because of its relatively low respiration rates. When the simulation results were scaled up to the whole country, GPP and
NEP were 175 and 29 Mton C y−1, respectively, for the 22.7 Mha of forests in Sweden. A climate change scenario was simulated by assuming a 4°C increase
in temperature and a doubling of the CO2 concentration; GPP and NEP then increased to 253 and 48 Mton C y−1, respectively. A sensitivity analysis showed that at present CO2 concentrations NEP would peak at an increase of 5°C for the mean annual temperature. At higher CO2 levels NEP showed a logarithmic increase. |
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Keywords: | boreal forest scots pine norway spruce national carbon balance biome-BGC modelling environmental change |
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