Thirty-eight years of CO<sub>2</sub> fertilization has outpaced growing aridity to drive greening of Australian woody ecosystems

Rifai, Sami W.; De Kauwe, Martin G.; Ukkola, Anna M.; Cernusak, Lucas A.; Meir, Patrick; Medlyn, Belinda E.; Pitman, Andy J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-491-2022

Articles | Volume 19, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-491-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-491-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 2

Research article

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28 Jan 2022

Research article |

| 28 Jan 2022

Thirty-eight years of CO₂ fertilization has outpaced growing aridity to drive greening of Australian woody ecosystems

Sami W. Rifai, Martin G. De Kauwe, Anna M. Ukkola, Lucas A. Cernusak, Patrick Meir, Belinda E. Medlyn, and Andy J. Pitman

Data sets

Thirty-eight years of CO2 fertilization have outpaced growing aridity to drive greening of Australian woody ecosystems, version 0.1 Sami W. Rifai https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4340064

sw-rifai/eastern-Australia-CO2-NDVI-change: revision_1 (revision_1) Sami W. Rifai https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5711964

Short summary

Australia's woody ecosystems have experienced widespread greening despite a warming climate and repeated record-breaking droughts and heat waves. Increasing atmospheric CO₂ increases plant water use efficiency, yet quantifying the CO₂ effect is complicated due to co-occurring effects of global change. Here we harmonized a 38-year satellite record to separate the effects of climate change, land use change, and disturbance to quantify the CO₂ fertilization effect on the greening phenomenon.

Thirty-eight years of CO2 fertilization has outpaced growing aridity to drive greening of Australian woody ecosystems

Data sets

Thirty-eight years of CO₂ fertilization has outpaced growing aridity to drive greening of Australian woody ecosystems