Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Contribution of land use to the interannual variability of the land carbon cycle

  • Chao Yue,
  • Philippe Ciais,
  • Richard A. Houghton,
  • Alexander A. Nassikas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16953-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Terrestrial carbon uptake as high inter-annual variability which can be used to help understand future responses to climate change. Here the authors’ modeling reveals a large portion of this variability is driven by human land use changes and management, and not captured by other models.