Reviews and syntheses: Field data to benchmark the carbon cycle models for tropical forests

Clark, Deborah A.; Asao, Shinichi; Fisher, Rosie; Reed, Sasha; Reich, Peter B.; Ryan, Michael G.; Wood, Tana E.; Yang, Xiaojuan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4663-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4663-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4663-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 20

Reviews and syntheses

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23 Oct 2017

Reviews and syntheses |

| 23 Oct 2017

Reviews and syntheses: Field data to benchmark the carbon cycle models for tropical forests

Deborah A. Clark, Shinichi Asao, Rosie Fisher, Sasha Reed, Peter B. Reich, Michael G. Ryan, Tana E. Wood, and Xiaojuan Yang

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Final revised paper (published on 23 Oct 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 05 May 2017)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Complete Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 May 2017
- AC1: 'Authors' responses to comments of Referee #1', D.A. Clark, 22 Jul 2017
RC2: 'Complete Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Jun 2017
- AC2: 'Authors' responses to comments of Referee #2', D.A. Clark, 22 Jul 2017

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (30 Jul 2017) by Anja Rammig

AR by D.A. Clark on behalf of the Authors (19 Aug 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (08 Sep 2017) by Anja Rammig

Short summary

Improved modeling of tropical-forest carbon cycling is urgently needed to project future climate and to guide global policy for greenhouse gases. Tropical forests store and process immense amounts of carbon, and their carbon cycling may be responding to climate change. Our goal with this paper, a multidisciplinary collaboration between modelers and field ecologists, is to identify reference-level field data from tropical forests that can be used to guide the models for these key ecosystems.