Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

Nuno Carvalhais (), Matthias Forkel, Myroslava Khomik, Jessica Bellarby, Martin Jung, Mirco Migliavacca, Mingquan Μu, Sassan Saatchi, Maurizio Santoro, Martin Thurner, Ulrich Weber, Bernhard Ahrens, Christian Beer, Alessandro Cescatti, James T. Randerson and Markus Reichstein
Additional contact information
Nuno Carvalhais: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Matthias Forkel: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Myroslava Khomik: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Jessica Bellarby: Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, UK
Martin Jung: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Mirco Migliavacca: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Mingquan Μu: University of California Irvine
Sassan Saatchi: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Maurizio Santoro: Gamma Remote Sensing, Worbstrasse 225, 3073 Gümligen, Switzerland
Martin Thurner: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Ulrich Weber: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Bernhard Ahrens: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Christian Beer: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Alessandro Cescatti: European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Climate Risk Management Unit, Via E. Fermi, 2749, I-21027 Ispra, Italy
James T. Randerson: University of California Irvine
Markus Reichstein: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany

Nature, 2014, vol. 514, issue 7521, 213-217

Abstract: A global, observation-based assessment of whole-ecosystem carbon turnover times shows that the overall mean global carbon turnover time is about 23 years and that locally its spatial variability depends on precipitation at least as strongly as on temperature.

Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (18)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13731 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:514:y:2014:i:7521:d:10.1038_nature13731

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature13731

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().