Title | The Effects of Land Cover and Land Use Change on the Contemporary Carbon Balance of the Arctic and Boreal Terrestrial Ecosystems of Northern Eurasia |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2010 |
Authors | Burnside, T.J., Melillo Jerry M., Hayes Daniel J., A. McGuire David, and Kicklighter David W. |
Series Editor | Gutman, Garik, and Reissell Anni |
Number of Pages | 109 - 136 |
Publisher | Springer Netherlands |
City | Dordrecht |
ISBN Number | 978-90-481-9118-5 |
Keywords | carbon balance, Eurasia, land cover, land use, terrestrial ecosystems |
Abstract | Recent changes in climate, disturbance regimes and land use and management systems in Northern Eurasia have the potential to disrupt the terrestrial sink of atmospheric CO2 in a way that accelerates global climate change. To determine the recent trends in the carbon balance of the arctic and boreal ecosystems of this region, we performed a retrospective analysis of terrestrial carbon dynamics across northern Eurasia over a recent 10-year period using a terrestrial biogeochemical process model. The results of the simulations suggest a shift in direction of the net flux from the terrestrial sink of earlier decades to a net source on the order of 45 Tg C year-1 between 1997 and 2006. The simulation framework and subsequent analyses presented in this study attribute this shift to a large loss of carbon from boreal forest ecosystems, which experienced a trend of decreasing precipitation and a large area burned during this time period. |
DOI | 10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5_6 |
The Effects of Land Cover and Land Use Change on the Contemporary Carbon Balance of the Arctic and Boreal Terrestrial Ecosystems of Northern Eurasia
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