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A Large Committed Long-Term Sink of Carbon due to Vegetation Dynamics

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

scientific article (publication date: 14 July 2011)

A Process‐Model Perspective on Recent Changes in the Carbon Cycle of North America

scientific article published in 2022

A comprehensive set of benchmark tests for a land surface model of simultaneous fluxes of water and carbon at both the global and seasonal scale

article

A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere-biosphere system

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A first-order analysis of the potential rôle of CO2 fertilization to affect the global carbon budget: a comparison of four terrestrial biosphere models

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A full greenhouse gases budget of Africa: synthesis, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities

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A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part I: Understanding of future change in the large-scale climate system

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A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

scientific article

African tropical rainforest net carbon dioxide fluxes in the twentieth century

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Analysing Amazonian forest productivity using a new individual and trait-based model (TFS v.1)

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Are Land‐Use Change Emissions in Southeast Asia Decreasing or Increasing?

scientific article published in 2022

Assessing a New Clue to How Much Carbon Plants Take Up

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Assessing the carbon balance of circumpolar Arctic tundra using remote sensing and process modeling

scientific article

Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

scientific article

Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Longterm Grassland Sites

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Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites

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Author Correction: Carbon budgets for 1.5 and 2 °C targets lowered by natural wetland and permafrost feedbacks

scholarly article by Edward Comyn-Platt et al published 15 October 2018 in Nature Geoscience

Benchmarking coupled climate-carbon models against long-term atmospheric CO2measurements

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Benchmarking the seasonal cycle of CO2fluxes simulated by terrestrial ecosystem models

article published in 2015

Biomass burning related ozone damage on vegetation over the Amazon forest: a model sensitivity study

scholarly article

Biophysics and vegetation cover change: a process-based evaluation framework for confronting land surface models with satellite observations

scientific article published in 2018

Biophysics and vegetation cover change: a process-based evaluation framework for confronting land surface models with satellite observations

Bridging Scales: An Approach to Evaluate the Temporal Patterns of Global Transpiration Products Using Tree‐Scale Sap Flow Data

scientific article published in 2023

CO<sub>2</sub> fertilization of crops offsets yield losses due to future surface ozone damage and climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Carbon budgets for 1.5 and 2 °C targets lowered by natural wetland and permafrost feedbacks

scholarly article by Edward Comyn-Platt et al published 9 July 2018 in Nature Geoscience

Carbon cost of plant nitrogen acquisition: A mechanistic, globally applicable model of plant nitrogen uptake, retranslocation, and fixation

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Carbon cycle. The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO₂ sink

scientific article published on 21 May 2015

Carbon dynamics of Western North American boreal forests in response to stand-replacing disturbances

scientific article published in 2023

Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Causes of slowing-down seasonal CO2 amplitude at Mauna Loa

scientific article published on 16 May 2020

Changes in the potential distribution of humid tropical forests on a warmer planet

scientific article

Changing Ecology of Tropical Forests: Evidence and Drivers

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Climate-Driven Variability and Trends in Plant Productivity Over Recent Decades Based on Three Global Products

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Climatic control of the high-latitude vegetation greening trend and Pinatubo effect

scientific article published on May 2002

Combining the [ABA] and net photosynthesis-based model equations of stomatal conductance

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Comparing and evaluating process-based ecosystem model predictions of carbon and water fluxes in major European forest biomes

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Comparing concentration-based (AOT40) and stomatal uptake (PODY) metrics for ozone risk assessment to European forests

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Comparison of forest above-ground biomass from dynamic global vegetation models with spatially explicit remotely sensed observation-based estimates

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Contrasting interannual atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> variabilities and their terrestrial mechanisms for two types of El Niños

scholarly article

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

scientific article

Conversion from forests to pastures in the Colombian Amazon leads to contrasting soil carbon dynamics depending on land management practices

scientific article

Conversion from forests to pastures in the Colombian Amazon leads to differences in dead wood dynamics depending on land management practices

scientific article

Corrigendum to Modelling basin-wide variations in Amazon forest productivity – Part 1: Model calibration, evaluation and upscaling functions for canopy photosynthesis" published in Biogeosciences, 6, 1247–1272, 2009"

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Current ambient concentrations of ozone in Panama modulate the leaf chemistry of the tropical tree Ficus insipida

scientific article

Current challenges of implementing anthropogenic land-use and land-cover change in models contributing to climate change assessments

scholarly article by Reinhard Prestele et al published 23 May 2017 in Earth System Dynamics ESD

Deficiencies of Phenology Models in Simulating Spatial and Temporal Variations in Temperate Spring Leaf Phenology

scientific article published on 25 February 2022

Development and evaluation of an Earth-System model – HadGEM2

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Diagnosing destabilization risk in global land carbon sinks ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 February 2023

Direct and seasonal legacy effects of the 2018 heat wave and drought on European ecosystem productivity

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Drone-derived canopy height predicts biomass across non-forest ecosystems globally

preprint

Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

scholarly article by M.K. van der Molen published in July 2011

Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling: Quantifying Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Large-Scale Environmental Change

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Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe

scientific article published on 27 October 2005

Effects of changes in climate on landscape and regional processes, and feedbacks to the climate system

scientific article

Emergent relationships on burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models

Emergent relationships with respect to burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models

scientific article published in 2019

Enhanced regional terrestrial carbon uptake over Korea revealed by atmospheric CO2 measurements from 1999 to 2017

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Evaluating the Interplay Between Biophysical Processes and Leaf Area Changes in Land Surface Models

scientific article published on 06 May 2018

Evaluation of Land Surface Models in Reproducing Satellite Derived Leaf Area Index over the High-Latitude Northern Hemisphere. Part II: Earth System Models

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Evaluation of Land Surface Models in Reproducing Satellite-Derived LAI over the High-Latitude Northern Hemisphere. Part I: Uncoupled DGVMs

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Evaluation of a photosynthesis-based biogenic isoprene emission scheme in JULES and simulation of isoprene emissions under present-day climate conditions

scholarly article

Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends

scientific article

Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

scientific article

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

scientific article

Forest production efficiency increases with growth temperature

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Global Carbon Budget 2015

scientific article published in 2015

Global Carbon Budget 2016

article by Corinne Le Quéré et al published 14 November 2016 in Earth system science data

Global Carbon Budget 2017

scholarly article

Global Carbon Budget 2017

preprint

Global Carbon Budget 2018

article published in 2018

Global Carbon Budget 2019

scholarly article

Global Carbon Budget 2020

scientific article

Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

scientific article published in 2022

Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non‐forest ecosystems

scientific article

Global carbon budget 2013

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

Global carbon budget 2014

scientific article published in 2015

Global ecosystems and fire: multi-model assessment of fire-induced tree cover and carbon storage reduction

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

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Global trends in carbon sinks and their relationships with CO2 and temperature

Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Global warming feedbacks on terrestrial carbon uptake under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Emission Scenarios

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Greening of the Earth and its drivers

Growing season extension affects ozone uptake by European forests

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

High sensitivity of future global warming to land carbon cycle processes

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Highly contrasting effects of different climate forcing agents on terrestrial ecosystem services

scientific article

Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed

How Well Do We Understand the Land‐Ocean‐Atmosphere Carbon Cycle?

scientific article published on 08 April 2022

How vegetation impacts affect climate metrics for ozone precursors

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IMOGEN: an intermediate complexity model to evaluate terrestrial impacts of a changing climate

article

INFERNO: a fire and emissions scheme for the Met Office's Unified Model

INFERNO: a fire and emissions scheme for the UK Met Office's Unified Model

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Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink

scientific article published on April 2009

Impact of climate variability on present and Holocene vegetation: A model-based study

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Impact of merging of historical and future climate data sets on land carbon cycle projections for South America

scientific article published on 22 October 2021

Impact of the 2015/2016 El Niño on the terrestrial carbon cycle constrained by bottom-up and top-down approaches

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Impacts of future land cover changes on atmospheric CO2and climate

Implications of future climate and atmospheric CO2content for regional biogeochemistry, biogeography and ecosystem services across East Africa

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Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate

scientific article published on 17 November 2017

Importance of soil thermal regime in terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics in the circumpolar north

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Improved representation of plant functional types and physiology in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES v4.2) using plant trait information

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Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes

scientific article published in 2020

Increased importance of methane reduction for a 1.5 degree target

Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades

scientific article published on 05 August 2021

Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Interannual variation of terrestrial carbon cycle: Issues and perspectives

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

Isoprene emissions and climate

Key findings and extended summaries

scientific article

Land use change and El Niño-Southern Oscillation drive decadal carbon balance shifts in Southeast Asia.

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Land-use and land-cover change carbon emissions between 1901 and 2012 constrained by biomass observations

article by Wei Li et al published 14 November 2017 in Biogeosciences

Land-use and land-cover change carbon emissions between 1901 and 2012 constrained by biomass observations

article by Wei Li et al published 2 June 2017 in Biogeosciences Discussions

Land-use emissions play a critical role in land-based mitigation for Paris climate targets

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Large but decreasing effect of ozone on the European carbon sink

scientific article published in 2018

Large but decreasing effect of ozone on the European carbon sink

Large carbon sink potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon to mitigate climate change

scientific article

Large sensitivity in land carbon storage due to geographical and temporal variation in the thermal response of photosynthetic capacity

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Large uncertainty in carbon uptake potential of land-based climate-change mitigation efforts

scientific article published on 23 March 2018

Large-Scale Droughts Responsible for Dramatic Reductions of Terrestrial Net Carbon Uptake Over North America in 2011 and 2012

Lower land-use emissions responsible for increased net land carbon sink during the slow warming period

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Modeling the Terrestrial Biosphere

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Modelling basin-wide variations in Amazon forest productivity – Part 1: Model calibration, evaluation and upscaling functions for canopy photosynthesis

scientific article published in 2009

Modelling tropical forest responses to drought and El Niño with a stomatal optimization model based on xylem hydraulics

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Multicriteria evaluation of discharge simulation in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models

Multiple constraints on regional CO2flux variations over land and oceans

Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change

scientific article

Narrowing the Range of Future Climate Projections Using Historical Observations of Atmospheric CO2

On the causes of trends in the seasonal amplitude of atmospheric CO2.

scientific article

Pathway dependence of ecosystem responses in China to 1.5 °C global warming

Precipitation and carbon-water coupling jointly control the interannual variability of global land gross primary production

scientific article

Present-day and future contribution of climate and fires to vegetation composition in the boreal forest of China

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Projected Changes in Terrestrial Carbon Storage in Europe under Climate and Land-use Change, 1990–2100

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Recent global decline of CO<sub>2</sub> fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

scientific article published on 2 February 2015

Reconciling Precipitation with Runoff: Observed Hydrological Change in the Midlatitudes

Reconciling global-model estimates and country reporting of anthropogenic forest CO2 sinks

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Regional carbon fluxes from land use and land cover change in Asia, 1980–2009

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Responses of spring phenology to climate change

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Robust dynamics of Amazon dieback to climate change with perturbed ecosystem model parameters

scholarly article by Benjamin Poulter et al published February 2010 in Global Change Biology

Role of CO 2 , climate and land use in regulating the seasonal amplitude increase of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems: a multimodel analysis

Role of CO<sub>2</sub>, climate and land use in regulating the seasonal amplitude increase of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems: a multimodel analysis

scientific article published in 2016

Role of land cover changes for atmospheric CO2increase and climate change during the last 150 years

scholarly article by Victor Brovkin et al published August 2004 in Global Change Biology

Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage

scientific article published in Nature

Sensitivity of simulated historical burned area to environmental andanthropogenic controls: A comparison of seven fire models

Shifts in national land use and food production in Great Britain after a climate tipping point

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

scholarly article by Chris Huntingford et al published 10 March 2013 in Nature Geoscience

Simulating fire regimes in human-dominated ecosystems: Iberian Peninsula case study

Simulating past and future dynamics of natural ecosystems in the United States

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Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes

scientific article published in 2023

Soil respiration–driven CO <sub>2</sub> pulses dominate Australia’s flux variability

scientific article published on 31 March 2023

Sources of Uncertainty in Modeled Land Carbon Storage within and across Three MIPs: Diagnosis with Three New Techniques

South American mountain ecosystems and global change – a case study for integrating theory and field observations for land surface modelling and ecosystem management

Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production: A review

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State of the science in reconciling top-down and bottom-up approaches for terrestrial CO2 budget

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Strong Correspondence in Evapotranspiration and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Between Different Eddy Covariance Systems Enables Quantification of Landscape Heterogeneity in Dryland Fluxes

scientific article published in 2022

Studying the impact of biomass burning aerosol radiative and climate effects on the Amazon rainforest productivity with an Earth System Model

scholarly article by Florent F. Malavelle et al published 18 September 2018 in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions

Studying the impact of biomass burning aerosol radiative and climate effects on the Amazon rainforest productivity with an Earth system model

scholarly article

Synthesis of effects in four Arctic subregions

scientific article

THE CARBON BALANCE OF THE TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE: ECOSYSTEM MODELS AND ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS

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Technical note: A simple theoretical model framework to describe plant stomatal “sluggishness” in response to elevated ozone concentrations

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Terrestrial biosphere carbon storage under alternative climate projections

Terrestrial vegetation and water balance—hydrological evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model

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The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: Experimental and analytical protocols

scientific article published on 5 October 2016

The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions

scientific article published on 17 March 2017

The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 1: Energy and water fluxes

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The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 2: Carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics

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The carbon balance of South America: a review of the status, decadal trends and main determinants ⬇️

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The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China

scientific article

The carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems in East Asia over the last two decades

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The carbon cycle in Mexico: past, present and future of C stocks and fluxes

scientific article published in 2016

The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests

The decreasing range between dry- and wet- season precipitation over land and its effect on vegetation primary productivity

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

The dry season intensity as a key driver of NPP trends

scholarly article

The ecology of peace: preparing Colombia for new political and planetary climates

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The effects of tropospheric ozone on net primary productivity and implications for climate change

scientific article

The global carbon budget 1959–2011

scientific article published on 8 May 2013

The importance of age-related decline in forest NPP for modeling regional carbon balances

scientific article published in August 2006

The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

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The status and challenge of global fire modelling ⬇️

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The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere

scientific article

The terrestrial carbon budget of South and Southeast Asia

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Towards quantifying uncertainty in predictions of Amazon 'dieback'.

scientific article

Towards real-time verification of CO2 emissions

Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

scientific article published on 17 November 2009

Tropical forests and the global carbon cycle: impacts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change and rate of deforestation

scientific article (publication date: 29 March 2004)

Twenty-first century atmospheric change and deforestation: potential impacts on tropical forests

article published in 2005

Uncertainty analysis of vegetation distribution in the northern high latitudes during the 21st century with a dynamic vegetation model

scientific article

Variations in Amazon forest productivity correlated with foliar nutrients and modelled rates of photosynthetic carbon supply

scientific article published in November 2011

Variations in atmospheric CO2 growth rates coupled with tropical temperature

scientific article (publication date: 6 August 2013)

Vegetation distribution and terrestrial carbon cycle in a carbon cycle configuration of JULES4.6 with new plant functional types

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Vegetation dynamics and plant CO2responses as positive feedbacks in a greenhouse world

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Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity

scientific article published in Nature

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