Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Vegetation-based climate mitigation in a warmer and greener World

  • Ramdane Alkama,
  • Giovanni Forzieri,
  • Gregory Duveiller,
  • Giacomo Grassi,
  • Shunlin Liang,
  • Alessandro Cescatti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28305-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Vegetation changes have been suggested as a climate mitigation option, but the numerous feedbacks between vegetation and climate are not well understood. Here, the authors show that greening leads to surface cooling in many areas, but the size of the effect depends on the background climate.