The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO 2 sink

Author:

Ahlström Anders12,Raupach Michael R.3,Schurgers Guy4,Smith Benjamin1,Arneth Almut5,Jung Martin6,Reichstein Markus6,Canadell Josep G.7,Friedlingstein Pierre8,Jain Atul K.9,Kato Etsushi10,Poulter Benjamin11,Sitch Stephen12,Stocker Benjamin D.1314,Viovy Nicolas15,Wang Ying Ping16,Wiltshire Andy17,Zaehle Sönke6,Zeng Ning18

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden.

2. Department of Earth System Science, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

3. Climate Change Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.

4. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.

5. Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research–Atmospheric Environmental Research, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, 82476 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

6. Biogeochemical Intergration Department, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07745 Jena, Germany.

7. Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmospheric Flagship, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

8. College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QF, UK.

9. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

10. Institute of Applied Energy, 105-0003 Tokyo, Japan.

11. Institute on Ecosystems and the Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA.

12. College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK.

13. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK.

14. Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

15. Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l’environnement, CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.

16. CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere Flagship, PMB 1, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia.

17. Met Office Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Road, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK.

18. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

Abstract

The difference is found at the margins The terrestrial biosphere absorbs about a quarter of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, but the amount that they take up varies from year to year. Why? Combining models and observations, Ahlström et al. found that marginal ecosystems—semiarid savannas and low-latitude shrublands—are responsible for most of the variability. Biological productivity in these semiarid regions is water-limited and strongly associated with variations in precipitation, unlike wetter tropical areas. Understanding carbon uptake by these marginal lands may help to improve predictions of variations in the global carbon cycle. Science , this issue p. 895

Funder

NSF

U.S. Department of Energy

NOAA

EC FP7

CSIRO

Swedish Research Council

Birgit and Hellmuth Hertz Foundation

Mistra-SWECIA

Australian Climate Change Science Program

NASA LCLUC

Environmental Research and Technology Development Fund

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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