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Forest Eco-Physiological Models: Water Use and Carbon Sequestration

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Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change

Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems ((MAFE,volume 34))

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Modeling and monitoring the processes involved in terrestrial carbon sequestration are often thought to be independent events. In fact, rigorously validated modern modeling techniques are very useful tools in the monitoring of the carbon sequestration potential of an ecosystem through simulation , by highlighting key areas for study of what is a complex dynamical system. This is ever more important in the light of climate change, where it becomes essential to have an understanding of the future role of terrestrial ecosystems as potential sinks or sources in the global carbon cycle, as well as the feedback and trade-off mechanisms between climate change and ecosystem carbon balances .

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Acknowledgment

This study was funded by the European Commission via a Marie Curie Excellence Grant through GREENCYCLES, the Marie-Curie Biogeochemistry and Climate Change Research and Training Network (MRTN-CT-2004-512464) supported by the European Commissions Sixth Framework program for Earth System Science, by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad via a FP1 grant through MEDSOUL project (CGL2014-59977-C3-1-R). This research was also funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MED-FORESTREAM (CGL2011-30590). Data was supplied by the ALARM project (Assessing LArge-scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods, GOCE-CT-2003-506675), from the EU Fifth Framework for Energy, environment and sustainable development. Invaluable assistance was also provided by Eduard Pla, and Jordi Vayreda.

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  1. Ecology Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    D. Nadal-Sala

  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA

    T. F. Keenan

  3. Ecology Department, University of Barcelona and CREAF researcher, Barcelona, Spain

    S. Sabaté & C. Gracia

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  1. ETS de Ingenierías Agrarias - Universidad de Valladolid & iuFOR - Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute Universidad de Valladolid - INIA, Palencia, Spain

    Felipe Bravo

  2. Forest Resources Management Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Valerie LeMay

  3. Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), Vienna, Austria

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Nadal-Sala, D., Keenan, T.F., Sabaté, S., Gracia, C. (2017). Forest Eco-Physiological Models: Water Use and Carbon Sequestration. In: Bravo, F., LeMay, V., Jandl, R. (eds) Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28250-3_5

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