Tropical carbon sinks are saturating at different times on different continents

Anja Rammig ()

Nature, 2020, vol. 579, issue 7797, 38-39

Abstract: A survey of tree establishment, growth and mortality shows that the rate at which Amazonian tropical forests take up carbon dioxide has slowed since the 1990s, whereas signs of a potential slowdown in Africa appeared only in 2010.

Keywords: Biogeochemistry; Climate change; Ecology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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