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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-223-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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15 Jan 2016
Research article |
| 15 Jan 2016
The carbon cycle in Mexico: past, present and future of C stocks and fluxes
G. Murray-Tortarolo
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
P. Friedlingstein
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
S. Sitch
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
V. J. Jaramillo
Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico
F. Murguía-Flores
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
A. Anav
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Y. Liu
Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
A. Arneth
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
A. Arvanitis
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
A. Harper
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Global Environment Program, Research & Development Division, The Institute of Applied Energy, Tokyo, Japan
Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
B. Poulter
Institute on Ecosystems and the Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA
B. D. Stocker
Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK
A. Wiltshire
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
S. Zaehle
Biogeochemical Intergration Department, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Impacts of 1.5 °C and 2 °C Global Warming on Net Primary Productivity and Carbon Balance in China’s Terrestrial Ecosystems L. Yu et al. 10.3390/su12072849
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We modelled the carbon (C) cycle in Mexico for three different time periods: past (20th century), present (2000-2005) and future (2006-2100). We used different available products to estimate C stocks and fluxes in the country. Contrary to other current estimates, our results showed that Mexico was a C sink and this is likely to continue in the next century (unless the most extreme climate-change scenarios are reached).
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