Field-experiment constraints on the enhancement of the terrestrial carbon sink by CO2 fertilization

Liu, Yongwen; Piao, Shilong; Gasser, Thomas; Ciais, Philippe; Yang, Hui; Wang, Han; Keenan, Trevor F.; Huang, Mengtian; Wan, Shiqiang; Song, Jian; Wang, Kai; Janssens, Ivan A.; Peñuelas, Josep; Huntingford, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5941-7770; Wang, Xuhui; Altaf Arain, Muhammad; Fang, Yuanyuan; Fisher, Joshua B.; Huang, Maoyi; Huntzinger, Deborah N.; Ito, Akihiko; Jain, Atul K.; Mao, Jiafu; Michalak, Anna M.; Peng, Changhui; Poulter, Benjamin; Schwalm, Christopher; Shi, Xiaoying; Tian, Hanqin; Wei, Yaxing; Zeng, Ning; Zhu, Qiuan; Wang, Tao. 2019 Field-experiment constraints on the enhancement of the terrestrial carbon sink by CO2 fertilization. Nature Geoscience, 12 (10). 809-814. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0436-1

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Abstract/Summary

Clarifying how increased atmospheric CO2 concentration (eCO2) contributes to accelerated land carbon sequestration remains important since this process is the largest negative feedback in the coupled carbon–climate system. Here, we constrain the sensitivity of the terrestrial carbon sink to eCO2 over the temperate Northern Hemisphere for the past five decades, using 12 terrestrial ecosystem models and data from seven CO2 enrichment experiments. This constraint uses the heuristic finding that the northern temperate carbon sink sensitivity to eCO2 is linearly related to the site-scale sensitivity across the models. The emerging data-constrained eCO2 sensitivity is 0.64 ± 0.28 PgC yr−1 per hundred ppm of eCO2. Extrapolating worldwide, this northern temperate sensitivity projects the global terrestrial carbon sink to increase by 3.5 ± 1.9 PgC yr−1 for an increase in CO2 of 100 ppm. This value suggests that CO2 fertilization alone explains most of the observed increase in global land carbon sink since the 1960s. More CO2 enrichment experiments, particularly in boreal, arctic and tropical ecosystems, are required to explain further the responsible processes.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0436-1
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Hydro-climate Risks (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	1752-0894
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Additional Keywords:	carbon cycle, climate and Earth system modelling, climate-change ecology
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
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Date made live:	30 Sep 2019 11:01 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525261

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0436-1

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Hydro-climate Risks (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

1752-0894

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Publisher link (see Related URLs) provides a read-only full-text copy of the published paper.

Additional Keywords:

carbon cycle, climate and Earth system modelling, climate-change ecology