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Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2957-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2957-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
Research article
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17 May 2021
Research article |  | 17 May 2021

Climate change and elevated CO2 favor forest over savanna under different future scenarios in South Asia

Dushyant Kumar, Mirjam Pfeiffer, Camille Gaillard, Liam Langan, and Simon Scheiter

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In this paper, we investigated the impact of climate change and rising CO2 on biomes using a vegetation model in South Asia, an often neglected region in global modeling studies. Understanding these impacts guides ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. Our results indicate that savanna regions are at high risk of woody encroachment and transitioning into the forest, and the bioclimatic envelopes of biomes need adjustments to account for shifts caused by climate change and CO2.
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