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Vegetation Type for the United States and Canada Simulated for the years 2070-2099 as Simulated by the MC1 Model (NA8K version) and Based on Climate Projections from the CSIRO Mk.3 for the SRES A1B Emission Scenario
Vegetation Type for the United States and Canada Simulated for the years 2070-2099 as Simulated by the MC1 Model (NA8K version) and Based on Climate Projections from the CSIRO Mk.3 for the SRES A1B Emission Scenario
MC1 is a dynamic vegetation model for estimating the distribution of
vegetation and associated ecosystem fluxes of carbon, nutrients, and
water. It was created to assess the potential impacts of global climate
change on ecosystem structure and function at a wide range of spatial
scales from landscape to global. The model incorporates transient
dynamics to make predictions about the patterns of ecological change.
MC1 was created by combining physiologically based biogeographic rules
defined in the MAPSS model with a modified version of the biogeochemical
model, CENTURY. MC1 includes a fire module, MCFIRE, that mechanistically
simulates the occurrence and impacts of fire events. Climate input data
sources for this particular run include the Climatic Research Unit (CRU
TS 2.0), the Canadian Forest Service, and Parameter-elevation
Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM). CRU data was used to
provide the variability (based on anomalies) and CFS and PRISM were used
to provide the mean climate for 1961-1990. Alaska and conterminous USA
soil was gridded from STATSGO and NATSGO data by Jeff Kern. Canadian
soil came from the North American Generalized Soil Data Set (NAGSOIL),
Version 0.2.
Data Provided By:
US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
Content date:
2070-2099
Citation:
Daly, C., D. Bachelet, J.M. Lenihan, R.P. Neilson, W. Parton, and D.
Ojima, Dynamic simulation of tree-grass interactions for global change
studies, Ecological Applications, 10, 449-469, 2000.
Bachelet D, Lenihan JM, Daly C, Neilson RP, Ojima DS, Parton WJ (2001).
MC1: A dynamic vegetation model for estimating the distribution of
vegetation and associated carbon, nutrients, and water -- technical
documentation. Version 1.0. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-508.
Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific
Northwest Research Station. c-minute for the downscaled
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The Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) provides scientific expertise to support the conservation and recovery of biological diversity in its natural state through applied research, education, planning, and community service.