Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Fire decline in dry tropical ecosystems enhances decadal land carbon sink

  • Yi Yin,
  • A. Anthony Bloom,
  • John Worden,
  • Sassan Saatchi,
  • Yan Yang,
  • Mathew Williams,
  • Junjie Liu,
  • Zhe Jiang,
  • Helen Worden,
  • Kevin Bowman,
  • Christian Frankenberg,
  • David Schimel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15852-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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In recent history the amount of carbon captured by terrestrial systems has increased, but the processes driving this process has remained poorly constrained. Here the authors use a global carbon model to show that a decrease in wildfires has caused the land carbon sink to increase in the past few decades.