Articles | Volume 13, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5277-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5277-2016
Research article
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22 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 22 Sep 2016

Modelling long-term impacts of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on merchantable biomass, ecosystem carbon, albedo, and radiative forcing

Jean-Sébastien Landry, Lael Parrott, David T. Price, Navin Ramankutty, and H. Damon Matthews

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We simulated mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreaks under four scenarios for the presence and growth release strength of non-attacked vegetation, and found that: (1) impacts on ecosystem carbon and radiative forcing varied greatly across the four scenarios; (2) the global climatic impact from the current outbreak in British Columbia, Canada, seemed smaller than one month of anthropogenic CO2 emissions; and (3) MPB-killed dead standing trees might hasten post-outbreak vegetation recovery.
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