Climate-driven shifts in continental net primary production implicated as a driver of a recent abrupt increase in the land carbon sink

The world's ocean and land ecosystems act as sinks for anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub>, and over the last half century their combined sink strength grew steadily with increasing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. Recent analyses of the global carbon budget, however, have uncovered a...

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Main Authors: W. Buermann, C. Beaulieu, B. Parida, D. Medvigy, G. J. Collatz, J. Sheffield, J. L. Sarmiento
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-03-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/1597/2016/bg-13-1597-2016.pdf