西藏高原地区陆地生态系统碳素循环平衡模拟

1IntroductionWith greatest concentration, carbon dioxide (CO2) is most sensitive to climate change among all the greenhouse gases. Since the Industrial Revolution, CO2 content emitted into the atmosphere has increased rapidly, due to the use of fossil fuels. According to estimations, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has increased from 280 ppm in the early period of the Industrial Revolution (Melillo etal., 1995) to 368 ppm at present (Keeling and Whorf, 2000). It is universally accept…

Simulation of terrestrial carbon cycle balance model in Tibet

Based on climate material, the simplified terrestrial carbon cycle balance (TCCB) model was established, which is semi-mechanism and semi-statistics. Through TCCB model, our estimate indicates that the southeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau has much higher carbon content, and we have calculated the litter carbon pool, NPP, carbon fluxes and described their spatial characteristics in this region. Based on the TCCB model simulation, NPP in Tibet is 1.73 X 10⁸tC/a, soil organic input rate is 0.66 × 10⁸ tC/a, litter mineralization rate is 1.07 × 10⁸ tC/a, vegetation litterfall rate is 1.73 ×10⁸tC/a, the litter carbon pool is 7.26 × 10⁸ tC, and soil decomposition rate is 309.54 × 10⁸ tC/a. The carbon budget was also analyzed based on the estimates of carbon pool and fluxes. The spatial distributions of carbon pools and carbon fluxes in different compartments of terrestrial ecosystem were depicted with map respectively in Tibet. The distribution of NPP, vegetation litterfall rate, litter, litter mineralization rate, soil organic input rate and the soil decomposition rate were abstracted with temperature, precipitation, fractional vegetation and land feature.