Biome-BGCMuSo Simulations of Species-Specific Forest Dynamics and Ecosystem Nutrient Cycling at the Bab Forest Site
Description
The database consists of simulation output generated with a process-based model of vegetation dynamics Biome-BGCMuSo v 6.2 (https://nimbus.elte.hu/bbgc/) for forests dominated by four tree species: oak, beech, pine, and spruce. The study was conducted for the Bab site, a lowland forest in western Slovakia, Europe. The outputs contain time series on selected ecosystem stocks and fluxes, including information on carbon stocks in stem, roots, foliage, litter, soil, and coarse woody debris, carbon fluxes including gross primary production, net primary production, net ecosystem exchange, total, heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration, water fluxes including evaporation, and transpiration covering a period from stand establishment up to present. The simulations were performed with calibrated sets of ecophysiological parameters for the four species with the aim to test the impact of tree species composition change on nutrient cycling at the specific site. The dataset highlights the species-specific differences in productivity and other ecosystem pools including soil, as well as in processes at the specific site under historical climate conditions of the study area. Acknowledgment: This manuscript was prepared within the project MORIDEK (Modelling the impacts of plant invasions on Danube ecosystems), a task supporting the review and assessment of high-risk invasive alien plant species in Danube floodplain ecosystems. The activity was Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the project No. 09I01-03-V04-00005.
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Steps to reproduce
The simulations were performed with Biome-BGCMuSo v.6.2: https://nimbus.elte.hu/bbgc/download.html. The data can be reproduced by performing simulations following the user´s guide prepared by Hidy et al. 2021 published here: https://nimbus.elte.hu/bbgc/files/Manual_BBGC_MuSo_v6.2.pdf The ecophysiological parameter sets for the four tree species were taken from calibration studies: Merganičová et al. 2024 Biogeochemical model Biome-BGCMuSo v6.2 provides plausible and accurate simulations of carbon cycle in Central European beech forests https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2024-45/gmd-2024-45-manuscript-version3.pdf Ostrogovic Sever et al. 2026 Country-scale forest carbon modelling supports national greenhouse gas inventory: case studies of Croatia and Slovakia. Under review in Regional Environmental Change. Site and environmental characteristics were taken from: Gajdoš et al. 2016 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303920210_Dlhodoby_ekologicky_vyskum_na_lokalite_Bab_juhozapadne_Slovensko Merganič et al. 2026 Allometric relationships of Ailanthus altissima growing in Central European lowland forest. Under review in Forests Bošeľa et al. 2026 Water-limited but drought-resilient: tree-ring evidence for the invasive potential of Ailanthus altissima in Central European dry lowlands. To be submitted to Forest Ecology and Management.
Institutions
- Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of SciencesBratislava Region, Bratislava