Nature Communications (Jan 2021)
Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands
- Jinfeng Chang,
- Philippe Ciais,
- Thomas Gasser,
- Pete Smith,
- Mario Herrero,
- Petr Havlík,
- Michael Obersteiner,
- Bertrand Guenet,
- Daniel S. Goll,
- Wei Li,
- Victoria Naipal,
- Shushi Peng,
- Chunjing Qiu,
- Hanqin Tian,
- Nicolas Viovy,
- Chao Yue,
- Dan Zhu
Affiliations
- Jinfeng Chang
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
- Philippe Ciais
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
- Thomas Gasser
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- Pete Smith
- Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen
- Mario Herrero
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
- Petr Havlík
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- Michael Obersteiner
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- Bertrand Guenet
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
- Daniel S. Goll
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
- Wei Li
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
- Victoria Naipal
- Ludwig-Maximilian University
- Shushi Peng
- Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
- Chunjing Qiu
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
- Hanqin Tian
- International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University
- Nicolas Viovy
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
- Chao Yue
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University
- Dan Zhu
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20406-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Grasslands, and the livestock that live there, are dynamic sources and sinks of greenhouse gases, but what controls these fluxes remains poorly characterized. Here the authors show that on the global level, grasslands are climate neutral owing to the cancelling effects of managed vs. natural systems.
