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The purpose of this section is to evaluate the effects of changes in climate under the GISS 2 × CO2 scenario (considered in Section 3) on the productivity of boreal forests. Some of the results reported here will be used as inputs to a further set of experiments concerned with the effect of productivity changes on forestry as an economic activity (see Section 6). Together Sections 5 and 6 provide a case study (at a hemispheric scale) of the advantages and limitations of linking biophysical and economic models in attempts to assess the effects of climatic change.
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Kauppi, P., Posch, M. (1988). A Case Study of the Effects of CO2-Induced Climatic Warming on Forest Growth and the Forest Sector: A. Productivity Reactions of Northern Boreal Forests. In: Parry, M.L., Carter, T.R., Konijn, N.T. (eds) The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2943-2_5
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