Great advances have been made in the last decade in quantifying and understanding the
spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) with ground …

Seventeen global models of terrestrial biogeochemistry were compared with respect to
annual and seasonal fluxes of net primary productivity (NPP) for the land biosphere. The …

It is argued that the problem of pattern and scale is the central problem in ecology, unifying
population biology and ecosystems science, and marrying basic and applied ecology …

Summary 1 The concept of plant functional type proposes that species can be grouped
according to common responses to the environment and/or common effects on ecosystem …

A process-based model was used to estimate global patterns of net primary production and
soil nitrogen cycling for contemporary climate conditions and current atmospheric C02 …

We present a conceptual model of the processes by which plant leaf and root litter is
transformed to soil organic C and CO2. Stabilization of a portion of the litter C yields material …

The ecological literature reveals considerable confusion about the meaning of validation in
the context of simulation models. The confusion arises as much from semantic and …

Climate change will include correlated increases in temperature and atmospheric CO2
concentration (Ca). Rising temperatures will increase the ratio of photorespiratory loss of …

We analysed data on mass loss after five years of decomposition in the field from both fine
root and leaf litters from two highly contrasting trees, Drypetes glauca, a tropical hardwood …

This revision maintains the position of Forest Ecosystems as the one source for the latest
information on the advanced methods that have enhanced our understating of forest …