Environmental Science
7 years ago

Climate Warming May Boost Global CO2 Absorption in Boreal and Temperate Regions

Scientific Reports
Effect of climate warming on the annual terrestrial net ecosystem CO2 exchange globally in the boreal and temperate regions
Zhiyuan Zhang, Renduo Zhang, Alessandro Cescatti, Georg Wohlfahrt, Nina Buchmann, Juanjuan Zhu, Guanhong Chen, Fernando Moyano, Jukka Pumpanen, Takashi Hirano, Kentaro Takagi, Lutz Merbold

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