Environmental change impacts on major biomes

1)      Southern Sweden temperate forest

+4 degrees C

decrease in total NPP (0.551 -0.46=0.091kgC/m2yr)

Temperate needleleved evergreen (0.326-0.247=0.079)

Temperate broadleafed summergreen (0.182-0.166=0.016)

Cool grass (0.043-0.047=-0.004)

→ all PFTs decreasing

Precipitation +10%

decrease in total NPP (0.551 -0.575=-0.024kgC/m2yr)

Temperate needleleved evergreen (0.326-0.336=-0.01)

Temperate broadleafed summergreen (0.182-0.194=-0.012)

Cool grass (0.043-0.045=-0.002)

→ almost no changes

CO2x2 (Double)

decrease in total NPP (0.551 -0.746=-0.195kgC/m2yr)

Temperate needleleved evergreen (0.326-0.267=0.059)

Temperate broadleafed summergreen (0.182-0.267=-0.085)

Cool grass (0.043-0.056=-0.013)

→ all PFTs increasing

Combined

increase in total NPP (0.551 -0.71=-0.159kgC/m2yr)

Temperate needleleved evergreen (0.326-0.378=-0.052)

Temperate broadleafed summergreen (0.182-0.272=-0.079)

Cool grass (0.043-0.06=-0.017)

→ all PFTs increasing