Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink

S Ruehr, TF Keenan, C Williams, Y Zhou, X Lu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change has been partially mitigated by an increasing net land carbon sink in the
terrestrial biosphere; understanding the processes that drive this sink is thus essential for …

Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

X Lian, S Piao, A Chen, C Huntingford, B Fu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Drylands are an essential component of the Earth System and are among the most
vulnerable to climate change. In this Review, we synthesize observational and modelling …

Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change

JG Canadell, CP Meyer, GD Cook, A Dowdy… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fire activity in Australia is strongly affected by high inter-annual climate variability and
extremes. Through changes in the climate, anthropogenic climate change has the potential …

Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

S Wang, Y Zhang, W Ju, JM Chen, P Ciais, A Cescatti… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The enhanced vegetation productivity driven by increased concentrations of carbon dioxide
(CO2)[ie, the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE)] sustains an important negative feedback on …

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

AP Walker, MG De Kauwe, A Bastos… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]) is increasing, which increases leaf‐scale
photosynthesis and intrinsic water‐use efficiency. These direct responses have the potential …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification

AL Burrell, JP Evans, MG De Kauwe - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Drylands cover 41% of the earth's land surface and include 45% of the world's agricultural
land. These regions are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to anthropogenic climate …

A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to rising CO2

TF Keenan, X Luo, BD Stocker, MG De Kauwe… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Theory predicts that rising CO2 increases global photosynthesis, a process known
as CO2 fertilization, and that this is responsible for much of the current terrestrial carbon …

CO2 fertilization of terrestrial photosynthesis inferred from site to global scales

C Chen, WJ Riley, IC Prentice… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Global photosynthesis is increasing with elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations, a
response known as the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE), but the key processes of CFE are not …

Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries' climate progress

G Grassi, E Stehfest, J Rogelj, D Van Vuuren… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Mitigation pathways by Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) describe future
emissions that keep global warming below specific temperature limits and are compared …

 RETRACTED ARTICLE: A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to increasing CO2

TF Keenan, X Luo, MG De Kauwe, BE Medlyn… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The global terrestrial carbon sink is increasing,–, offsetting roughly a third of anthropogenic
CO2 released into the atmosphere each decade, and thus serving to slow the growth of …