The Carbon Cycle in Mexico: past, present and future of C stocks and fluxes

Although we agree that a finer resolution analysis could improve our understanding of the C balance in Mexico, most current models and the driving data needed to force them are on either a 0.5x0.5 or 1x1 resolution or higher. In addition, increasing the spatial resolution may not necessarily yield better results, as finer-scale processes may or may not affect larger scale processes (e.g. landslides usually have local scale effects). However, DGVMs are moving in this direction, i.e. application at finer spatial scales and working towards accounting for disturbances at the landscape scale.