Contribution of climate change and rising CO2 to terrestrial carbon balance in East Asia: A multi-model analysis

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 133-142

  Piao, Shilong ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^b   Lomas, Mark ^c   Beer, Christian ^d   Liu, Hongyan ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^b,e   Huang, Yao ^f   Muraoka, Hiroyuki ^g   Son, Yowhan ^h   Woodward, Ian ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^g GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biomass change; Carbon cycle; Climate change; East Asia; NEP; NPP; Soil carbon change

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; EAST ASIA; NEP; NPP; SOIL CARBON CHANGE;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL CARBON; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION COVER; VULNERABILITY;

FAR EAST;

EID: 79951517810     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.10.014     Document Type: Article

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