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China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model

BACKGROUND: China’s terrestrial ecosystems play a pronounced role in the global carbon cycle. Here we combine spatially-explicit information on vegetation, soil, topography, climate and land use change with a process-based biogeochemistry model to quantify the responses of terrestrial carbon cycle i...

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Autores principales: Lu, Yanyu, Huang, Yao, Zhuang, Qianlai, Sun, Wei, Chen, Shutao, Lu, Jun
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9548143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36209183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13021-022-00215-9
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author Lu, Yanyu
Huang, Yao
Zhuang, Qianlai
Sun, Wei
Chen, Shutao
Lu, Jun
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Huang, Yao
Zhuang, Qianlai
Sun, Wei
Chen, Shutao
Lu, Jun
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description BACKGROUND: China’s terrestrial ecosystems play a pronounced role in the global carbon cycle. Here we combine spatially-explicit information on vegetation, soil, topography, climate and land use change with a process-based biogeochemistry model to quantify the responses of terrestrial carbon cycle in China during the 20th century. RESULTS: At a century scale, China’s terrestrial ecosystems have acted as a carbon sink averaging at 96 Tg C yr(− 1), with large inter-annual and decadal variabilities. The regional sink has been enhanced due to the rising temperature and CO(2) concentration, with a slight increase trend in carbon sink strength along with the enhanced net primary production in the century. The areas characterized by C source are simulated to extend in the west and north of the Hu Huanyong line, while the eastern and southern regions increase their area and intensity of C sink, particularly in the late 20th century. Forest ecosystems dominate the C sink in China and are responsible for about 64% of the total sink. On the century scale, the increase in carbon sinks in China’s terrestrial ecosystems is mainly contributed by rising CO(2). Afforestation and reforestation promote an increase in terrestrial carbon uptake in China from 1950s. Although climate change has generally contributed to the increase of carbon sinks in terrestrial ecosystems in China, the positive effect of climate change has been diminishing in the last decades of the 20th century. CONCLUSION: This study focuses on the impacts of climate, CO(2) and land use change on the carbon cycle, and presents the potential trends of terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance in China at a century scale. While a slight increase in carbon sink strength benefits from the enhanced vegetation carbon uptake in China’s terrestrial ecosystems during the 20th century, the increase trend may diminish or even change to a decrease trend under future climate change. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13021-022-00215-9.
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spelling pubmed-95481432022-10-10 China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model Lu, Yanyu Huang, Yao Zhuang, Qianlai Sun, Wei Chen, Shutao Lu, Jun Carbon Balance Manag Research BACKGROUND: China’s terrestrial ecosystems play a pronounced role in the global carbon cycle. Here we combine spatially-explicit information on vegetation, soil, topography, climate and land use change with a process-based biogeochemistry model to quantify the responses of terrestrial carbon cycle in China during the 20th century. RESULTS: At a century scale, China’s terrestrial ecosystems have acted as a carbon sink averaging at 96 Tg C yr(− 1), with large inter-annual and decadal variabilities. The regional sink has been enhanced due to the rising temperature and CO(2) concentration, with a slight increase trend in carbon sink strength along with the enhanced net primary production in the century. The areas characterized by C source are simulated to extend in the west and north of the Hu Huanyong line, while the eastern and southern regions increase their area and intensity of C sink, particularly in the late 20th century. Forest ecosystems dominate the C sink in China and are responsible for about 64% of the total sink. On the century scale, the increase in carbon sinks in China’s terrestrial ecosystems is mainly contributed by rising CO(2). Afforestation and reforestation promote an increase in terrestrial carbon uptake in China from 1950s. Although climate change has generally contributed to the increase of carbon sinks in terrestrial ecosystems in China, the positive effect of climate change has been diminishing in the last decades of the 20th century. CONCLUSION: This study focuses on the impacts of climate, CO(2) and land use change on the carbon cycle, and presents the potential trends of terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance in China at a century scale. While a slight increase in carbon sink strength benefits from the enhanced vegetation carbon uptake in China’s terrestrial ecosystems during the 20th century, the increase trend may diminish or even change to a decrease trend under future climate change. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13021-022-00215-9. Springer International Publishing 2022-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9548143/ /pubmed/36209183 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13021-022-00215-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Research
Lu, Yanyu
Huang, Yao
Zhuang, Qianlai
Sun, Wei
Chen, Shutao
Lu, Jun
China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model
title China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model
title_full China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model
title_fullStr China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model
title_full_unstemmed China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model
title_short China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model
title_sort china’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9548143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36209183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13021-022-00215-9
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