Articles | Volume 8, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3593-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3593-2015
Development and technical paper
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06 Nov 2015
Development and technical paper |  | 06 Nov 2015

Taking off the training wheels: the properties of a dynamic vegetation model without climate envelopes, CLM4.5(ED)

R. A. Fisher, S. Muszala, M. Verteinstein, P. Lawrence, C. Xu, N. G. McDowell, R. G. Knox, C. Koven, J. Holm, B. M. Rogers, A. Spessa, D. Lawrence, and G. Bonan

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (25 Aug 2015) by Hisashi Sato
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (04 Sep 2015) by Hisashi Sato
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Predicting the distribution of vegetation under novel climates is important, both to understand how climate change will impact ecosystem services, but also to understand how vegetation changes might affect the carbon, energy and water cycles. Historically, predictions have been heavily dependent upon observations of existing vegetation boundaries. In this paper, we attempt to predict ecosystem boundaries from the ``bottom up'', and illustrate the complexities and promise of this approach.