Communications Earth & Environment (Jan 2022)

The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management

  • Zongyao Sha,
  • Yongfei Bai,
  • Ruren Li,
  • Hai Lan,
  • Xueliang Zhang,
  • Jonathon Li,
  • Xuefeng Liu,
  • Shujuan Chang,
  • Yichun Xie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00333-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Optimal land management practices could increase terrestrial carbon sequestration by 13.7 Petagrams of carbon each year, with only 15% of the land area accounting for half of this increase, according to a carbon gap analysis of global primary production.