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04 Dec 2017
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Effects of carbon turnover time on terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage
Yaner Yan
Key Laboratory for Eco-Agricultural Biotechnology around Hongze
Lake/Collaborative Innovation Center of Regional Modern Agriculture &
Environmental Protection, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai'an 223300, China
Tiantong National Station for Forest Ecosystem Research, Shanghai Key
Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological
and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062,
China
Tiantong National Station for Forest Ecosystem Research, Shanghai Key
Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological
and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062,
China
Center for Global Change and Ecological forecasting, East China Normal
University, Shanghai 200062, China
Lifeng Jiang
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University,
Arizona, 86011, USA
Yiqi Luo
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University,
Arizona, 86011, USA
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma,
OK, USA
Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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The effects of C turnover time on ecosystem C storage have not been well explored, so we quantified the spatial variation in ecosystem C storage over time from changes in C turnover time and/or NPP. Our results showed that the terrestrial C release caused by the decrease in MTT only accounted for about 13.5 % of that due to the change in NPP uptake. However, the larger uncertainties in the spatial variation of MTT than temporal changes would lead to a greater impact on ecosystem C storage.
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