Forecasting and Assessing the Large-Scale and Long-Term Impacts of Global Environmental Change on Terrestrial Ecosystems in the United States and China

摘要: The Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems have experienced a complex set of global changes, occurring on large spatial-temporal scales and interactively affecting individual organisms ecological systems, most which are not amenable to direct experimentation. To understand, predict, assess the large-scale long-term impacts changes ecosystems, we need such new approach for extrapolating growth plants, animals, or into future when climate, CO2, other factors may be different, plant site studies onto regional scale. In this chapter, present newly developed called Regional Integration System ecosystem (RISE), builds upon improved knowledge fundamental mechanisms supported by rapidly developing technology from high-speed computer systems high-resolution remote sensing sources with coverage. Then apply RISE address our common understanding perhaps important issue facing humankind in twenty-first century, disruption carbon cycle. We use two case illustrate overall merits applications research. first study, has been used predict change net primary productivity storage southeastern U.S. under current climatic conditions climate scenarios. second fluxes induced multiple environmental stresses including variability/change, land-use land-cover change, elevated dioxide, air pollution China.