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Systems approaches in global change and biogeochemistry research

2011; Royal Society; Volume: 367; Issue: 1586 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rstb.2011.0173

1471-2970

Pete Smith, Fabrizio Albanito, M.J. Bell, Jessica Bellarby, Sergey Blagodatskiy, Arindam Datta, Marta Dondini, Nuala Fitton, Helen Flynn, Astley Hastings, Jon Hillier, Edward O. Jones, Matthias Kuhnert, Dali Nayak, Mark Pogson, Mark Richards, Gosia Sozanska-Stanton, Shifeng Wang, Jagadeesh Yeluripati, Emily Bottoms, Christopher Brown, Jenny Farmer, Diana Feliciano, Hao Cui, Andy D. Robertson, Sylvia H. Vetter, Hon Man Wong, Jo Smith,

Climate variability and models

Systems approaches have great potential for application in predictive ecology. In this paper, we present a range of examples, where systems approaches are being developed and applied at a range of scales in the field of global change and biogeochemical cycling. Systems approaches range from Bayesian calibration techniques at plot scale, through data assimilation methods at regional to continental scales, to multi-disciplinary numerical model applications at country to global scales. We provide examples from a range of studies and show how these approaches are being used to address current topics in global change and biogeochemical research, such as the interaction between carbon and nitrogen cycles, terrestrial carbon feedbacks to climate change and the attribution of observed global changes to various drivers of change. We examine how transferable the methods and techniques might be to other areas of ecosystem science and ecology.