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Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-675-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-675-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Research article
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04 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 04 Feb 2016

How have past fire disturbances contributed to the current carbon balance of boreal ecosystems?

C. Yue, P. Ciais, D. Zhu, T. Wang, S. S. Peng, and S. L. Piao

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The pan-boreal biome (> N45°) removes CO2 from the atmosphere (i.e., it is a carbon sink). Fires can alter this carbon balance because they release CO2 to the atmosphere but also initiate a long-term carbon sink during post-fire vegetation recovery. We found that historical fires of 1850–2009 have a small net sink contribution (~6 %) to the 2000–2009 regional carbon sink, which is a balance between immediate source effect of fires in 2000–2009 and sink effects of those in 1850–1999.
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