Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

A spatial emergent constraint on the sensitivity of soil carbon turnover to global warming

  • Rebecca M. Varney,
  • Sarah E. Chadburn,
  • Pierre Friedlingstein,
  • Eleanor J. Burke,
  • Charles D. Koven,
  • Gustaf Hugelius,
  • Peter M. Cox

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19208-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The fate of the carbon locked away in soil is uncertain, and there are vast differences between models. Here the authors apply observational, spatio-temporal constraints on carbon turnover projections and find that uncertainty in estimations of carbon dynamics are reduced by 50%.