Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Land use change and El Niño-Southern Oscillation drive decadal carbon balance shifts in Southeast Asia

  • Masayuki Kondo,
  • Kazuhito Ichii,
  • Prabir K. Patra,
  • Joseph G. Canadell,
  • Benjamin Poulter,
  • Stephen Sitch,
  • Leonardo Calle,
  • Yi Y. Liu,
  • Albert I. J. M. van Dijk,
  • Tazu Saeki,
  • Nobuko Saigusa,
  • Pierre Friedlingstein,
  • Almut Arneth,
  • Anna Harper,
  • Atul K. Jain,
  • Etsushi Kato,
  • Charles Koven,
  • Fang Li,
  • Thomas A. M. Pugh,
  • Sönke Zaehle,
  • Andy Wiltshire,
  • Frederic Chevallier,
  • Takashi Maki,
  • Takashi Nakamura,
  • Yosuke Niwa,
  • Christian Rödenbeck

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03374-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The carbon balance in Southeast Asia is highly uncertain. Here, the authors show that land use changes and occurrence of strong El Niño control decadal shifts in the carbon balance of this region.