Using global vegetation models to understand interactions between the land and atmosphere
Thursday, June 20, 2024 12pm to 1pm
About this Event
29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Global vegetation models are powerful tools for exploring hypotheses about how climate change and human activities affect ecosystems and feedback to climate. The past 40 years have seen the development and application of dynamic global vegetation models of increasing complexity and resolution. Today, these models are used in a very wide range of studies on the past, present, and future of the earth system. Here I will provide an overview of my work on modeling global and regional patterns of vegetation distribution, wildfire, wetlands, and biogeochemical cycling including carbon sequestration and methane emissions. I will show results of new research using vegetation modeling to understand long-term changes in wildfire globally and in North America.