Dryland vegetation response to wet episode, not inherent shift in sensitivity to rainfall, behind Australia's role in 2011 global carbon sink anomaly

Summary, in English

There is compelling new evidence that semi-arid ecosystems are playing a pivotal role in the inter-annual variability and greening trend of the global carbon cycle (Ahlström et al., 2015). The situation is exemplified by the vast inland region of Australia, the driest inhabited continent. Using a global model, Poulter et al. (2014) inferred that Australian ecosystems contributed 57% of a record global carbon uptake anomaly in 2011, and have entered a regime of enhanced sensitivity to rainfall since the mid-1990s. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

• Författare: Vanessa Haverd; Benjamin Smith; Cathy Trudinger
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap; MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system; BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
• Publiceringsår: 2016
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 2315-2316
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Global Change Biology
• Volym: 22
• Issue: 7
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13202
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Ämne: Climate Research; Environmental Sciences
• Nyckelord: Australian ecosystem response; dryland vegetation; global land carbon sink anomaly; net ecosystem production; precipitation anomaly
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1354-1013