Simulating the drought response of European tree species with the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS (v4.1, 97c552c5)
Benjamin F. Meyer,João P. Darela-Filho,Konstantin Gregor,Allan Buras,Qiao-Lin Gu,Andreas Krause,Daijun Liu,Phillip Papastefanou,Sijeh Asuk,Thorsten E. E. Grams,Christian S. Zang,and Anja Rammig
Professorship of Land Surface–Atmosphere Interactions, Ecophysiology of Plants, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
Climate change has increased the likelihood of drought events across Europe, potentially threatening the European forest carbon sink. Dynamic vegetation models with mechanistic plant hydraulic architecture are needed to model these developments. We evaluate the plant hydraulic architecture version of LPJ-GUESS and show its ability to capture species-specific evapotranspiration responses to drought and to reproduce flux observations of both gross primary production and evapotranspiration.
Climate change has increased the likelihood of drought events across Europe, potentially...