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Long-term pattern and magnitude of soil carbon feedback to the climate system in a warming world
Abstract
Climate and the carbon cycle: It is still not clear how global warming will affect the global carbon cycle, either in terms of the magnitude of the effect or even its sign. Help in answering that question will come from long-term field-based experiments designed to explore carbon cycle-climate feedbacks in an ecosystem context. Melillo et al. performed a 26-year soil-warming experiment in a mid-latitude hardwood forest (see the Perspective by Metcalfe). Warming has resulted in a complex pattern of net carbon loss from the soil. These results support projections of a long-term, positive carbon feedback from similar ecosystems as the world warms. Science , this issue p. 101 ; See also p. 41
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- Melillo, J. M., Frey, S. D., DeAngelis, K. M., Werner, W. J., Bernard, M. J., Bowles, F. P., Pold, G., Knorr, M. A., & Grandy, A. S.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2017-10-06
- Volume
- 358
- Issue
- 6359
- Pages
- 101-105
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2761659736
- Cited by
- 912
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 53.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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