Estimating Trends and Variation of Net Biome Productivity in India for 1980–2012 Using a Land Surface Model
Abstract
In this paper we explore the trend in net biome productivity (NBP) over India for the period 1980–2012 and quantify the impact of different environmental factors, including atmospheric CO2 concentrations ([CO2]), land use and land cover change, climate, and nitrogen deposition on carbon fluxes using a land surface model, Integrated Science Assessment Model. Results show that terrestrial ecosystems of India have been a carbon sink for this period. Driven by a strong CO2 fertilization effect, magnitude of NBP increased from 27.17 TgC/yr in the 1980s to 34.39 TgC/yr in the 1990s but decreased to 23.70 TgC/yr in the 2000s due to change in climate. Adoption of forest conservation, management, and reforestation policies in the past decade has promoted carbon sequestration in the ecosystems, but this effect has been offset by loss of carbon from ecosystems due to rising temperatures and decrease in precipitation.
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- Indian Inst. of Technology (IIT), New Delhi (India)
- Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1537302
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0016323
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 44; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Geology
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Gahlot, Shilpa, Shu, Shijie, Jain, Atul K., and Baidya Roy, Somnath. Estimating Trends and Variation of Net Biome Productivity in India for 1980–2012 Using a Land Surface Model. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/2017gl075777.
Gahlot, Shilpa, Shu, Shijie, Jain, Atul K., & Baidya Roy, Somnath. Estimating Trends and Variation of Net Biome Productivity in India for 1980–2012 Using a Land Surface Model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl075777
Gahlot, Shilpa, Shu, Shijie, Jain, Atul K., and Baidya Roy, Somnath. Mon .
"Estimating Trends and Variation of Net Biome Productivity in India for 1980–2012 Using a Land Surface Model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl075777. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1537302.
@article{osti_1537302,
title = {Estimating Trends and Variation of Net Biome Productivity in India for 1980–2012 Using a Land Surface Model},
author = {Gahlot, Shilpa and Shu, Shijie and Jain, Atul K. and Baidya Roy, Somnath},
abstractNote = {In this paper we explore the trend in net biome productivity (NBP) over India for the period 1980–2012 and quantify the impact of different environmental factors, including atmospheric CO2 concentrations ([CO2]), land use and land cover change, climate, and nitrogen deposition on carbon fluxes using a land surface model, Integrated Science Assessment Model. Results show that terrestrial ecosystems of India have been a carbon sink for this period. Driven by a strong CO2 fertilization effect, magnitude of NBP increased from 27.17 TgC/yr in the 1980s to 34.39 TgC/yr in the 1990s but decreased to 23.70 TgC/yr in the 2000s due to change in climate. Adoption of forest conservation, management, and reforestation policies in the past decade has promoted carbon sequestration in the ecosystems, but this effect has been offset by loss of carbon from ecosystems due to rising temperatures and decrease in precipitation.},
doi = {10.1002/2017gl075777},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 22,
volume = 44,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {11}
}
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