Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake

• Published in: Nature climate change Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 188 - 195
• Main Authors: Virkkala, Anna-Maria, Rogers, Brendan M., Watts, Jennifer D., Arndt, Kyle A., Potter, Stefano, Wargowsky, Isabel, Schuur, Edward A. G., See, Craig R., Mauritz, Marguerite, Boike, Julia, Bret-Harte, M. Syndonia, Burke, Eleanor J., Burrell, Arden, Chae, Namyi, Chatterjee, Abhishek, Chevallier, Frederic, Christensen, Torben R., Commane, Roisin, Dolman, Han, Edgar, Colin W., Elberling, Bo, Emmerton, Craig A., Euskirchen, Eugenie S., Feng, Liang, Göckede, Mathias, Grelle, Achim, Helbig, Manuel, Holl, David, Järveoja, Järvi, Karsanaev, Sergey V., Kobayashi, Hideki, Kutzbach, Lars, Liu, Junjie, Luijkx, Ingrid T., López-Blanco, Efrén, Lunneberg, Kyle, Mammarella, Ivan, Marushchak, Maija E., Mastepanov, Mikhail, Matsuura, Yojiro, Maximov, Trofim C., Merbold, Lutz, Meyer, Gesa, Nilsson, Mats B., Niwa, Yosuke, Oechel, Walter, Palmer, Paul I., Park, Sang-Jong, Parmentier, Frans-Jan W., Peichl, Matthias, Peters, Wouter, Petrov, Roman, Quinton, William, Rödenbeck, Christian, Sachs, Torsten, Schulze, Christopher, Sonnentag, Oliver, St. Louis, Vincent L., Tuittila, Eeva-Stiina, Ueyama, Masahito, Varlagin, Andrej, Zona, Donatella, Natali, Susan M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.02.2025
• Subjects: 631/158/2445; 704/106/125; 704/47; Climate Change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Earth and Environmental Science; Environment; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice

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