Warming climate extends dryness-controlled areas of terrestrial carbon sequestration

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 4; no. 1; p. 5472
• Main Authors: Yi, Chuixiang, Wei, Suhua, Hendrey, George
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.07.2014; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 704/106/694/1108; 704/106/694/682; Carbon dioxide; Carbon sequestration; Climate; Climate change; Drought; Ecosystem integrity; Feedback; Global warming; Humanities and Social Sciences; Land area; Land degradation; multidisciplinary; Science; Temperature effects; Terrestrial environments; Vegetation

At biome-scale, terrestrial carbon uptake is controlled mainly by weather variability. Observational data from a global monitoring network indicate that the sensitivity of terrestrial carbon sequestration to mean annual temperature ( T ) breaks down at a threshold value of 16°C, above which terrestr...