eprintid: 13601 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 353 dir: disk0/00/01/36/01 datestamp: 2016-08-05 11:31:42 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:41:26 status_changed: 2016-08-05 11:31:42 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 1 creators_name: Esser, G. creators_id: AL1750 title: Implications of Climate Change for Production and Decomposition in Grasslands and Coniferous Forests ispublished: pub keywords: climatic change; coniferous forest; decomposition; grassland; primary production abstract: A geographical information system, together with a climate—driven, global, regionalized, carbon—budget model, was used to investigate climatic limitations of grassland and coniferous forest vegetation units. The climatic limitations of the fluxes net primary productivity and litter decay were considered for present climatic conditions and for scenario conditions assuming a 3.5°C temperature rise or a 10% precipitation increase, respectively. The two fluxes behave differently in respect to climatic limitations. Global grassland and coniferous forest areas are quite similar in size, but grasslands have the higher productivity while coniferous forests dominate in phytomass. Therefore, grasslands are more important for the seasonal carbon cycle. Coniferous forests have the stronger potential to influence the long—term carbon balance. The assumed climate change will strongly affect the climatic limitations of both vegetation types. date: 1992-02-01 date_type: published id_number: 10.2307/1941888 creators_browse_id: 2868 full_text_status: none publication: Ecological Applications volume: 2 number: 1 pagerange: 47-54 refereed: TRUE issn: 10510761 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_project: no fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: Esser, G. (1992). Implications of Climate Change for Production and Decomposition in Grasslands and Coniferous Forests. Ecological Applications 2 (1) 47-54. 10.2307/1941888 .