Drivers and patterns of land biosphere carbon balance reversal

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Müller, Christoph ^a   Stehfest, Elke ^b   Van Minnen, Jelle G ^b   Strengers, Bart ^b   Von Bloh, Werner ^a   Beusen, Arthur H W ^b   Schaphoff, Sibyll ^a   Kram, Tom ^b   Lucht, Wolfgang ^a,c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

climate sensitivity; integrated assessment; land biosphere; land use change; modelling; terrstrial carbon balance; vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOSPHERICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; ECONOMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE; MODELS; VEGETATION;

CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; LAND BIOSPHERE; LAND-USE CHANGE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOSPHERE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE CHANGE; LATITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL CARBON; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84964787400     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044002     Document Type: Article

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