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US Pacific Northwest ecosystem carbon simulation - current and future

US Pacific Northwest ecosystem carbon simulation - current and future

Apr 6, 2010 (Last modified Sep 22, 2010)

Created by Dominique Bachelet

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Description: Total ecosystem carbon (grass, tree, soil carbon) pools were simulated over the western 2 third of OR and WA for current conditions and for future climate scenarios. Warmer wetter conditions with elevated atmospheric CO2 enhance carbon capture while warmer and drier conditions decrease it. Decomposition will be affected by moisture conditions and soil temperature and reduce (dry soils) or enhance (moist warm soil) carbon losses. Fires can also reduce carbon pools significantly in the future.

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Credits: Dominique Bachelet

Use Constraints: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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Tags: scenarios, carbon, washington, simulation, climate, oregon, co2, model

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Dominique Bachelet

climate change scientist with Oregon State University

Dominique received her Master’s degree in 1978 in Lille (France) and her Ph.D. in 1983 from Colorado State University with a thesis focused on biogeochemical cycles in the shortgrass prairie. In 1984 she went to U.C. Riverside as a postdoc simulating nitrogen fixing shrubs in the Sonoran desert then...