Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Emerging negative impact of warming on summer carbon uptake in northern ecosystems

  • Tao Wang,
  • Dan Liu,
  • Shilong Piao,
  • Yilong Wang,
  • Xiaoyi Wang,
  • Hui Guo,
  • Xu Lian,
  • John F Burkhart,
  • Philippe Ciais,
  • Mengtian Huang,
  • Ivan Janssens,
  • Yue Li,
  • Yongwen Liu,
  • Josep Peñuelas,
  • Shushi Peng,
  • Hui Yang,
  • Yitong Yao,
  • Yi Yin,
  • Yutong Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07813-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The impacts of climate change on summer carbon cycling in the northern hemisphere remain poorly resolved. Here the authors use atmospheric CO2 records from Point Barrow (Alaska) to show that summer CO2 drawdown is significantly negatively correlated with terrestrial temperature north of 50°N between 1979–2012.