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GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
卷 11, 期 7, 页码 1003-1012出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00962.x
关键词
alternative stable states; climate change; facilitation; hysteresis; models; nonlinear change; semiarid regions; vegetation dynamics
Predictions of the effects of climate change on the extent of forests, savannas and deserts are usually based on simple response models derived from actual vegetation distributions. In this review, we show two major problems with the implicitly assumed straightforward cause-effect relationship. Firstly, several studies suggest that vegetation itself may have considerable effects on regional climate implying a positive feedback, which can potentially lead to large-scale hysteresis. Secondly, vegetation ecologists have found that effects of plants on microclimate and soils can cause a microscale positive feedback, implying that critical precipitation conditions for colonization of a site may differ from those for disappearance from that site. We argue that it is important to integrate these nonlinearities at disparate scales in models to produce more realistic predictions of potential effects of climate change and deforestation.
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