Climate Change and Terrestrial Vegetation Processes
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Modeling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2022) | Viewed by 257
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ecological climatology; land surface models; terrestrial ecosystem models; land–atmosphere interactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The journals Plants will be publishing a Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrestrial Vegetation Processes. Terrestrial vegetation plays a vital role in determining regional and global climate through biogeochemical and biogeophysical processes, and the climate in turn affects ecosystem processes and functions. Improving our understanding on the climate-vegetation interaction is urgent as it forms the science basis that helps make polices to mitigate and adapt the climate change. Models that describe the physical, chemical, and biological processes occurring in the biosphere and the atmosphere are basic science tools for us to investigate the complex coupling between the climate and terrestrial vegetation. There are high interests in developing, improving, and applying global and regional models of the biosphere-atmosphere system.
This Special Issue will cover a wide variety of fields, aiming to contribute to the overall knowledge of the climate-vegetation interaction. The following manuscript types can be considered for peer-reviewed publication, including but not limited to, identification and understanding of processes not yet included in the models or unexplored feedbacks that are related to climate and vegetation, newly developments of numerical models of the biosphere-atmosphere system and its components, comprehensive evaluations and comparisons of previously published models of the biosphere-atmosphere system using field and remote sensing observations, and novel model expriments and applications that help improve our understanding on climate change and terrestrial vegetation.
Prof. Dr. Qinchuan Xin
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- climate change
- terrestrial vegetation
- land-atmosphere interactions
- land surface process
- ecosystem models
