Land use change and El Niño-Southern Oscillation drive decadal carbon balance shifts in Southeast Asia

The carbon balance in Southeast Asia is highly uncertain. Here, the authors show that land use changes and occurrence of strong El Niño control decadal shifts in the carbon balance of this region.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Masayuki Kondo, Kazuhito Ichii, Prabir K. Patra, Joseph G. Canadell, Benjamin Poulter, Stephen Sitch, Leonardo Calle, Yi Y. Liu, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Tazu Saeki, Nobuko Saigusa, Pierre Friedlingstein, Almut Arneth, Anna Harper, Atul K. Jain, Etsushi Kato, Charles Koven, Fang Li, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Sönke Zaehle, Andy Wiltshire, Frederic Chevallier, Takashi Maki, Takashi Nakamura, Yosuke Niwa, Christian Rödenbeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03374-x