Vegetation structural change since 1981 significantly enhanced the terrestrial carbon sink

There lacks systematic analysis on the importance of vegetation structural change in the global terrestrial carbon cycle. Here the authors conducted a multi-model comparison analysis and find that the increase in leaf area index has been responsible for 12.4% of the accumulated terrestrial carbon si...

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Main Authors: Jing M. Chen, Weimin Ju, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Ronggao Liu, Yang Liu, Xuehe Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12257-8