Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-925-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-925-2016
Research article
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18 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2016

The effect of using the plant functional type paradigm on a data-constrained global phenology model

Silvia Caldararu, Drew W. Purves, and Matthew J. Smith

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The plant functional type (PFT) concept is widely used in global vegetation models but recent studies have attempted to replace this with a more biologically representative formulation by using plant traits. In this study we aim to quantify the performance of a data-constrained leaf phenology model that uses PFTs when compared to one that uses local traits. We show that the PFT model performs relatively poorly but we can identify a small number of traits that improve model performance.
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