TY - JOUR
AU1 - Canadell, Josep G.
AU2 - Pataki, Diane E.
AU3 - Gifford, Roger
AU4 - Houghton, Richard A.
AU5 - Luo, Yiqi
AU6 - Raupach, Michael R.
AU7 - Smith, Pete
AU8 - Steffen, Will
AB - Chapter 6 Josep G. Canadell · Diane E. Pataki · Roger Gifford · Richard A. Houghton · Yiqi Luo · Michael R. Raupach Pete Smith · Will Steffen most of the biological sinks will eventually level-off and 6.1 Introduction subsequently declined to zero (hereafter referred as “sink saturation”) whereby no further C will be removed from There is strong evidence that the terrestrial biosphere the atmosphere. has acted as a net carbon (C) sink over the last two and Coupled with this sink decline, global warming and half decades. Its strength is highly variable year-to-year deforestation have the potential to destabilize large bio- –1 ranging from 0.3 to 5.0 Pg C yr ; an amount of signifi- spheric C pools (hereafter referred as “vulnerable C pools”) cant magnitude compared to the emission of about which would add CO to the atmosphere. This C source –1 7 Pg C yr from fossil fuel burning (Prentice et al. 2001; component will further diminish the net gains of C sinks Schimel et al. 2001; Sabine et al. 2004). Uncertainties as- and could even diminish the sink strength beyond zero, sociated with C emissions from land-use change are large. thereby moving from being 
TI - Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World: Saturation of the Terrestrial Carbon Sink
DA - 2007-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/terrestrial-ecosystems-in-a-changing-world-saturation-of-the-T3f5qyWa3E
DP - DeepDyve
ER -