biospheremetrics v1.0.2: an R package to calculate two complementary terrestrial biosphere integrity indicators – human colonization of the biosphere (BioCol) and risk of ecosystem destabilization (EcoRisk)

Stenzel, Fabian; Braun, Johanna; Breier, Jannes; Erb, Karlheinz; Gerten, Dieter; Heinke, Jens; Matej, Sarah; Ostberg, Sebastian; Schaphoff, Sibyll; Lucht, Wolfgang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3235-2024

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biospheremetrics v1.0.2: an R package to calculate two complementary terrestrial biosphere integrity indicators – human colonization of the biosphere (BioCol) and risk of ecosystem destabilization (EcoRisk)

Fabian Stenzel, Johanna Braun, Jannes Breier, Karlheinz Erb, Dieter Gerten, Jens Heinke, Sarah Matej, Sebastian Ostberg, Sibyll Schaphoff, and Wolfgang Lucht

Data sets

Data for GMD submission "biospheremetrics: An R package to calculate two complementary terrestrial biosphere integrity indicators: human colonization of the biosphere (BioCol) and risk of ecosystem destabilization (EcoRisk)" Fabian Stenzel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10008051

Model code and software

stenzelf/biospheremetrics: updated GMD paper version due to review Fabian Stenzel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10699198

Short summary

We provide an R package to compute two biosphere integrity metrics that can be applied to simulations of vegetation growth from the dynamic global vegetation model LPJmL. The pressure metric BioCol indicates that we humans modify and extract > 20 % of the potential preindustrial natural biomass production. The ecosystems state metric EcoRisk shows a high risk of ecosystem destabilization in many regions as a result of climate change and land, water, and fertilizer use.