Historically inconsistent productivity and respiration fluxes in the global terrestrial carbon cycle

Terrestrial plants sequester carbon through photosynthesis, and that carbon is eventually returned to the atmosphere through respiration by plants and soil microbes. Here the authors show a large, unexpected gap in estimations of these two carbon fluxes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jinshi Jian, Vanessa Bailey, Kalyn Dorheim, Alexandra G. Konings, Dalei Hao, Alexey N. Shiklomanov, Abigail Snyder, Meredith Steele, Munemasa Teramoto, Rodrigo Vargas, Ben Bond-Lamberty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29391-5