The FireMIP paper describing the benchmarking of fire-enabled vegetation model simulations of the historic period is now out in Geoscientific Model Development (https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3299-2020). The team, led by Stijn Hantson, have…Read More >
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World Without Fire: Another FireMIP paper is out! By Sandy Harrison
The paper “Global ecosystems and fire: a multi-model assessment of fire-induced tree cover and carbon storage reduction” (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.15160), led by Gitta Lasslop (Senckenberg: https://www.senckenberg.de/en/institutes/sbik-f/biodiversity-and-ecosystem-services/team-biodiversitaet-und-oekosystemdienstleistungen-im-erdsystem/) has come out today. This paper…Read More >
Slow train coming. By Sandy Harrison
I am very glad that our paper “Organising principles for vegetation dynamics” was published today in Nature Plants (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-020-0655-x). This perspective paper explores new approaches to modelling the terrestrial biosphere…Read More >
Anyone for fieldwork (with elephants)? By Sandy Harrison
Sandy has just returned from a ten-day trip to Bangalore, which was originally planned to coincide with the PACMEDY stakeholder meeting in Pune and opportunities to give lectures at the…Read More >
Extending a first-principles primary production model to predict wheat yields. By Sandy Harrison
Tsinghua Tiger Shengchao Qiao’s first paper is now out in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107932). In this paper, Shengchao has extended the P model to create a new model –…Read More >
BIOME 6000 vegetation reconstructions Description: This dataset contains BIOME 6000 reconstructions of vegetation at 0, 6, and 21ka at individual sites, where the original published nomenclature for individual regions has…Read More >