Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980
oleh: Zhen Yu, Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao, Richard A. Houghton, Chaoqun Lu, Hanqin Tian, Evgenios Agathokleous, Giri Raj Kattel, Stephen Sitch, Daniel Goll, Xu Yue, Anthony Walker, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K. Jain, Shirong Liu, Guoyi Zhou
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01 |
Deskripsi
The impact of land-use and cover-change (LUCC) on ecosystem carbon stock in China is poorly known due to large biases in existing databases. Here the authors develop a new LUCC database with corrected false signals and reveal that forest expansion is the dominant driver of China’s recent carbon sink.