Climate change projections of terrestrial primary productivity over the Hindu Kush Himalayan forests

Usman, Halima; Pugh, Thomas A. M.; Ahlström, Anders; Baig, Sofia

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-857-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-857-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-857-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

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16 Aug 2021

Research article |

| 16 Aug 2021

Climate change projections of terrestrial primary productivity over the Hindu Kush Himalayan forests

Halima Usman, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Anders Ahlström, and Sofia Baig

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Simulations underlying the analysis in the publication: Climate Change Projections of Terrestrial Primary Productivity over the Hindu Kush Himalayan Forests Halima Usman, Thomas Pugh, Anders Ahlström, and Sofia Baig https://doi.org/10.4121/15097500.v1

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The study assesses the impacts of climate change on forest productivity in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. LPJ-GUESS was simulated from 1851 to 2100. In first approach, the model was compared with observational estimates. The comparison showed a moderate agreement. In the second approach, the model was assessed for the temporal and spatial trends of net biome productivity and its components along with carbon pool. Increases in both variables were predicted in 2100.