title: [Carbon equilibrium in Larix gmelinii forest and impact of global change on it].
abstract: In order to provide a methodological demonstration for the study of C cycle in forest, the CENTURY model was applied to simulate the C cycle in Larix gmelinii forest and to approach the impact of global change on it. The results showed that the Larix gmelinii forest served as a C sink, with an annual net absorption of 2.65t.hm-2. Climate change and increased atmospheric CO2 concentration benefited for the net primary production (CNPP) and net C absorption capacity of forests in North China. When the atmospheric temperature was increased by 2 degrees C, the gross biomass and NPP of Larix gmelinii forest increased, while soil C content decreased, and the variation of these three indices was bigger when the precipitation was decreased by 20% than increased by 20%, indicating that the limiting factor for the forest growth in this area is atmospheric temperature, while precipitation is abundant or even too much.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Quantitative Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093. yljiang@ns.ibcas.ac.cn
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism*; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D028221:Larix / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D002244:Carbon