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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5661-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5661-2016
Research article
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13 Oct 2016
Research article |  | 13 Oct 2016

Soil carbon response to land-use change: evaluation of a global vegetation model using observational meta-analyses

Sylvia S. Nyawira, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Axel Don, Victor Brovkin, and Julia Pongratz

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We introduce an approach applicable to dynamic global vegetation models for evaluating simulated soil carbon changes from land-use changes against meta-analyses. The approach makes use of the large spatial coverage of the observations, and accounts for different ages of the sampled land-use transitions. The evaluation offers an opportunity for identifying causes of model–data discrepancies. Applied to the model JSBACH, we find that introducing crop harvest substantially improves the results.
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