Regional impacts of climate change and elevated carbon dioxide on forest productivity

Jennifer C. Jenkins; David W. Kicklighter; John D. Aber

doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1256-0_11

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Regional impacts of climate change and elevated carbon dioxide on forest productivity

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Authors:

Jennifer C. Jenkins, David W. Kicklighter, John D. Aber

Year:

2000

Type:

Other

Station:

Northern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1256-0_11

Source:

In: Mickler, Robert A.; Birdsey, Richard A.; Hom, John, eds. Responses of northern U.S. forests to environmental change. Ecological studies 139. New York: Springer-Verlag: 383-423.

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Abstract

Net primary production (NPP) is defined as the rate at which carbon (C) is accumulated by autotrophs and is expressed as the difference between gross photosynthesis and autotrophic respiration. NPP is the resource providing for the growth and reproduction of all heterotrophs on Earth; as a result, it determines the planet's carrying capacity (Vitousek et al., 1986). For humans, terrestrial NPP is important because it is one determinant of the available food and wood supplies, and because it drives the rates of most other processes identified as "ecosystem services" provided by terrestrial systems (Costanza et al., 1997; Daily et al., 1997).

Citation

Jenkins, Jennifer C.; Kicklighter, David W.; Aber, John D. 2000. Regional impacts of climate change and elevated carbon dioxide on forest productivity. In: Mickler, Robert A.; Birdsey, Richard A.; Hom, John, eds. Responses of northern U.S. forests to environmental change. Ecological studies 139. New York: Springer-Verlag: 383-423.