ADVANCE IN THE PROJECT “MODELLING RESPONSES OF CHINESETERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS TO GLOBAL CHANGE”

It is the important objective of the core project “Global Change and Terrestrial E- cosystems (GCTE)” of international Geosphere-Biosphere Project (IGBP) to predict the feedback of terrestrial ecosystems on atmosphere and climate and the responses of the structure and function of ecosystems , natural and managed , to global change in different scales. The advance of the project .Modeling responses of Chinese terrestrial ecosystems to global change. is presented in this paper , mainly including plant ecophyaiological re- sponsea to global change, modeling responses of plant community to global change and cli- mate - vegetation interaction , remote sensing modeling of responses of biomes to global change , and predicting responses of ecosystems to global climate change. In addition, in- trepans and some research areas of global change and terrestrial ecosystems are also em- phasized in this paper.