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The EFIMOD-ROMUL soil-vegetation dynamic model of carbon and nitrogen cycles in forest ecosystems and a static ground vegetation model BioCalc were used for simulating the dynamics of forest ecosystem parameters and prognosis of plant species biodiversity under two management and two climate change scenarios. A large forested area occupying approximately 1,800 km2 on the Central Russian Plain (in Kostroma administrative region) was taken as a case study. Natural forest development (forest reservation) and clear cutting regime were taken as the management scenarios. The most dramatic climate change based on HadCM3 model and A1Fi emission scenario and ‘stationary climate’ were taken as the climatic scenarios. The simulation results showed that clear cutting impacts on forest biodiversity are very strong in the study area and climate warming has minimal effect on biodiversity under the clear cutting regime but climate changes lead to a slight decrease in species diversity under the forest natural development.
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Great thanks to Dr. Alexey Mikhailov for the development and support of the BioCalc model and Prof. Oleg Chertov for invaluable comments. This work is partly supported by Program of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences No. 4 and Russian Foundation of Basic Researches, grant No. 09-04-01209.
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Khanina, L., Bobrovsky, M., Komarov, A., Shanin, V., Bykhovets, S. (2014). Model Predictions of Effects of Different Climate Change Scenarios on Species Diversity with or without Management Intervention, Repeated Thinning, for a Site in Central European Russia. In: Sutton, M., Mason, K., Sheppard, L., Sverdrup, H., Haeuber, R., Hicks, W. (eds) Nitrogen Deposition, Critical Loads and Biodiversity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7939-6_19
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