The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change

ETA Mitchard - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Tropical forests make an approximately neutral contribution to the global carbon cycle, with
intact and recovering forests taking in as much carbon as is released through deforestation …

Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: Current status and future directions

H Tian, C Lu, J Yang, K Banger… - Global …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Soil is the largest organic carbon (C) pool of terrestrial ecosystems, and C loss from soil
accounts for a large proportion of land‐atmosphere C exchange. Therefore, a small change …

Atmosphere–soil carbon transfer as a function of soil depth

J Balesdent, I Basile-Doelsch, J Chadoeuf, S Cornu… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The exchange of carbon between soil organic carbon (SOC) and the atmosphere affects the
climate, and—because of the importance of organic matter to soil fertility—agricultural …

Warm springs alter timing but not total growth of temperate deciduous trees

C Dow, AY Kim, L D'Orangeville, EB Gonzalez-Akre… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
As the climate changes, warmer spring temperatures are causing earlier leaf-out,–and
commencement of CO2 uptake, in temperate deciduous forests, resulting in a tendency …

[HTML][HTML] Natural hazard risk assessments at the global scale

PJ Ward, V Blauhut, N Bloemendaal… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2020 - nhess.copernicus.org
Since 1990, natural hazards have led to over 1.6 million fatalities globally, and economic
losses are estimated at an average of around USD 260–310 billion per year. The scientific …

Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability

WR Wieder, CC Cleveland, WK Smith… - Nature Geoscience, 2015 - nature.com
The size of the terrestrial sink remains uncertain. This uncertainty presents a challenge for
projecting future climate–carbon cycle feedbacks,,,. Terrestrial carbon storage is dependent …

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

A Ahlström, MR Raupach, G Schurgers, B Smith… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The growth rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations since industrialization
is characterized by large interannual variability, mostly resulting from variability in CO2 …

Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

Y Luo, A Ahlström, SD Allison, NH Batjes… - Global …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Soil carbon (C) is a critical component of Earth system models (ESMs), and its diverse
representations are a major source of the large spread across models in the terrestrial C …

Uncertainty in US forest carbon storage potential due to climate risks

C Wu, SR Coffield, ML Goulden, JT Randerson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Forests have considerable potential to mitigate anthropogenic climate change through
carbon sequestration, as well as provide society with substantial co-benefits. However …