Regional Projections of the Impacts of Future Urbanization and Climate Change on Biogeochemical Cycles in New England Landscapes
Linghui Meng, Afshin Pourmokhtarian, Pamela H. Templer, Lucy R. Hutyra, Jonathan R. Thompson, Charles T. Driscoll · 2025
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Description
Linghui Meng and co-authors project New England's forests under cities and climate change together. Their 2025 modeling study runs a daily ecosystem simulator across the region under scenarios that vary land cover, climate, and air quality through the coming decades.
The region stays a carbon sink overall, but the south tells another story: aggressive urban growth slows its carbon gains and may flip it into a source. Extra carbon dioxide fertilizes growth for now, though nutrient limits may fade that boost, while warming speeds soil decay and carbon loss. Nitrogen grows scarcer as pollution falls, slowing forests further. Southern snowpack shrinks and melts earlier. The authors urge planners to fold land use and climate together in forest policy.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Linghui Meng, Afshin Pourmokhtarian, Pamela H. Templer, Lucy R. Hutyra, Jonathan R. Thompson, Charles T. Driscoll |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |