Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Sensitivity of the global carbonate weathering carbon-sink flux to climate and land-use changes

  • Sibo Zeng,
  • Zaihua Liu,
  • Georg Kaufmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13772-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Carbonate weathering captures CO2 and represents a large sink of terrestrial carbon that is threatened by climate and land-use change. Here the authors build a model that predicts drivers of carbonate weathering into the future, determining that runoff is an overlooked controlling factor.