Modelling long-term impacts of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on
merchantable biomass, ecosystem carbon, albedo, and radiative forcing

Landry, Jean-Sébastien; Parrott, Lael; Price, David T.; Ramankutty, Navin; Matthews, H. Damon

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5277-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5277-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5277-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 18

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22 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 22 Sep 2016

Modelling long-term impacts of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on merchantable biomass, ecosystem carbon, albedo, and radiative forcing

Jean-Sébastien Landry, Lael Parrott, David T. Price, Navin Ramankutty, and H. Damon Matthews

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RC1: 'Well written, interesting modeling study', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 May 2016
RC2: 'Solid Modeling Examination of Important Topic But Needs Further Display and Evaluation of Model Treatment / Results', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 May 2016
RC3: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 27 May 2016
AC1: 'Response to the three Reviewers', Jean-Sebastien Landry, 15 Jul 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (18 Jul 2016) by Anja Rammig

AR by Jean-Sebastien Landry on behalf of the Authors (18 Jul 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Jul 2016) by Anja Rammig

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (24 Aug 2016)

ED: Publish as is (07 Sep 2016) by Anja Rammig

AR by Jean-Sebastien Landry on behalf of the Authors (07 Sep 2016)

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We simulated mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreaks under four scenarios for the presence and growth release strength of non-attacked vegetation, and found that: (1) impacts on ecosystem carbon and radiative forcing varied greatly across the four scenarios; (2) the global climatic impact from the current outbreak in British Columbia, Canada, seemed smaller than one month of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions; and (3) MPB-killed dead standing trees might hasten post-outbreak vegetation recovery.