Quantifying the role of land-use and land-cover changes in Northern Eurasia in global greenhouse gas emissions and biomass supply during the 21st century using an earth system modeling approach

Qianlai Zhuang1, David W Kicklighter2, Yongxia Cai3, Nadezhda M Tchebakova4, Jerry M Melillo5, John M Reilly6, Andrei P Sokolov7, Andrey Sirin4, Shamil S Maksyutov8 and Anatoly Shvidenko9, (1)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States, (2)MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Research Triangle Institute, Social, Statistical, and Environmental Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (4)V.N.Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, (5)Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, United States, (7)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge, MA, United States, (8)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Satellite Observation Center, Tsukuba, Japan, (9)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria