The potential evapotranspiration (PET) that would occur with unlimited plant access to water is a central
driver of simulated plant growth in many ecological models. PET is influenced by solar and longwave
radiation, temperature, wind speed, and humidity, but it is often modeled as a function of temperature
alone. This...
We developed a new climate-sensitive vegetation state-and-transition simulation model (CV-STSM) to simulate future vegetation at a fine spatial grain commensurate with the scales of human land-use decisions, and under the joint influences of changing climate, site productivity, and disturbance. CV-STSM integrates outputs from four different modeling systems. Successional changes in...
Large shifts in species ranges have been predicted under future climate scenarios based primarily on niche-based species distribution models. However, the mechanisms that would cause such shifts are uncertain. Natural and anthropogenic fires have shaped the distributions of many plant species, but their effects have seldom been included in future...