Potential vegetation distribution (modal average for 2070-2099) simulated using the MC1 model with MIROC medres climate projections under the A2 anthropogenic emission scenario at a half degree spatial grain over the globe.

These results come from the GLOBAL version of MC1. MC1 is a dynamic vegetation model for estimating the distribution of vegetation and associated ecosystem fluxes of carbon, nutrients, and water. It was created to assess the potential impacts of global climate change on ecosystem structure and function at a wide range of spatial scales from landscape to global. The model incorporates transient dynamics to make predictions about the patterns of ecological change. MC1 was created by combining physiologically based biogeographic rules defined in the MAPSS model with a modified version of the biogeochemical model, CENTURY. MC1 includes a fire module, MCFIRE, that mechanistically simulates the occurrence and impacts of fire events. Climate input data sources for this particular run include the Climatic Research Unit (CRU TS 2.0). Soil texture data came from the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLCP).