Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests:  similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses

Rowland, L.; Harper, A.; Christoffersen, B. O.; Galbraith, D. R.; Imbuzeiro, H. M. A.; Powell, T. L.; Doughty, C.; Levine, N. M.; Malhi, Y.; Saleska, S. R.; Moorcroft, P. R.; Meir, P.; Williams, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1097-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1097-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1097-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 4

Development and technical paper

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21 Apr 2015

Development and technical paper |

| 21 Apr 2015

Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests: similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses

L. Rowland, A. Harper, B. O. Christoffersen, D. R. Galbraith, H. M. A. Imbuzeiro, T. L. Powell, C. Doughty, N. M. Levine, Y. Malhi, S. R. Saleska, P. R. Moorcroft, P. Meir, and M. Williams

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RC C3000: 'comments', Nicolas Delbart, 20 Jan 2015
- AC C3350: 'Response to major and minor comments from reviewer Nicolas Delbart.', Lucy Rowland, 16 Feb 2015
RC C3140: 'Review report from the topical editor', Hisashi Sato, 27 Jan 2015
- AC C3362: 'Response to Hisashi Sato (Editor/Reveiwer)', Lucy Rowland, 16 Feb 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Lucy Rowland on behalf of the Authors (16 Feb 2015)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Feb 2015) by Hisashi Sato

RR by Nicolas Delbart (26 Mar 2015)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (27 Mar 2015) by Hisashi Sato

AR by Lucy Rowland on behalf of the Authors (27 Mar 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This study evaluates the capability of five vegetation models to simulate the response of forest productivity to changes in temperature and drought, using data collected from an Amazonian forest. This study concludes that model consistencies in the responses of net canopy carbon production to temperature and precipitation change were the result of inconsistently modelled leaf-scale process responses and substantial variation in modelled leaf area responses.