Nature Communications (Sep 2022)
Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980
- Zhen Yu,
- Philippe Ciais,
- Shilong Piao,
- Richard A. Houghton,
- Chaoqun Lu,
- Hanqin Tian,
- Evgenios Agathokleous,
- Giri Raj Kattel,
- Stephen Sitch,
- Daniel Goll,
- Xu Yue,
- Anthony Walker,
- Pierre Friedlingstein,
- Atul K. Jain,
- Shirong Liu,
- Guoyi Zhou
Affiliations
- Zhen Yu
- Institute of Ecology and School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
- Philippe Ciais
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement, CEA CNRS UVSQ Gif-sur-Yvette
- Shilong Piao
- Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
- Richard A. Houghton
- Woodwell Climate Research Center
- Chaoqun Lu
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
- Hanqin Tian
- Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College
- Evgenios Agathokleous
- Institute of Ecology and School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
- Giri Raj Kattel
- School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
- Stephen Sitch
- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter
- Daniel Goll
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement, CEA CNRS UVSQ Gif-sur-Yvette
- Xu Yue
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
- Anthony Walker
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Pierre Friedlingstein
- College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter
- Atul K. Jain
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Shirong Liu
- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment, China’s National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry
- Guoyi Zhou
- Institute of Ecology and School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32961-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
The impact of land-use and cover-change (LUCC) on ecosystem carbon stock in China is poorly known due to large biases in existing databases. Here the authors develop a new LUCC database with corrected false signals and reveal that forest expansion is the dominant driver of China’s recent carbon sink.
