Fire decline in dry tropical ecosystems enhances decadal land carbon sink

In recent history the amount of carbon captured by terrestrial systems has increased, but the processes driving this process has remained poorly constrained. Here the authors use a global carbon model to show that a decrease in wildfires has caused the land carbon sink to increase in the past few de...

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Main Authors: Yi Yin, A. Anthony Bloom, John Worden, Sassan Saatchi, Yan Yang, Mathew Williams, Junjie Liu, Zhe Jiang, Helen Worden, Kevin Bowman, Christian Frankenberg, David Schimel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15852-2