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Regional Impacts of Climate Change and Elevated Carbon Dioxide on Forest Productivity

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Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 139))

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). Forests store 90% of the C in terrestrial vegetation (Graham et al., 1990), so fluxes of C between forest biomass, forest soils, and the atmosphere are key components of global and regional C budgets. In the northeastern U.S., forest production is especially important because nearly 70% of the land area in the region is forested (Lathrop and Bognar, 1994).

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Jenkins, J.C., Kicklighter, D.W., Aber, J.D. (2000). Regional Impacts of Climate Change and Elevated Carbon Dioxide on Forest Productivity. In: Mickler, R.A., Birdsey, R.A., Hom, J. (eds) Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change. Ecological Studies, vol 139. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1256-0_11

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