Progr ess on Climate- Vegetation Modeling in the Tibetan Plateau
青藏高原的气候植被模型研究进展

Modeling is a key method in the study of climate-vegetation,which is an important content in the field of global change researches.As a huge geographical unit,the Tibetan Plateau has strong effects on Chinese and East Asian climate because of its unique location and higher elevation.Because of special environment,the biomes on the Tibetan Plateau have many distinguishing characteristics that are not shown by some global models.The above-mentioned characteristics and less human disturbance make it an important area for study on climate-vegetation.This paper reviews five major types of climate-vegetation models that have been widely used to simulate response of vegetation to climate change and points out its advantage and disadvantage.Combining some related researches on the Tibetan Plateau,the paper summarizes the progress of climate-vegetation modeling from two aspects of vegetation distribution and vegetation net primary productivity,and finds modeling is a very important way for climate-vegetation researches.Nevertheless,in fact,climate-vegetation modeling is lagged behind other areas.So the crux of works in future is to master the crucial theories of climate-vegetation mutual reaction,then develop pertinent models with characteristics of the Tibetan Plateau.