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    Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

    A global, observation-based assessment of whole-ecosystem carbon turnover times shows that the overall mean global carbon turnover time is about 23 years and that locally its spatial variability depends on pre...

    Nuno Carvalhais, Matthias Forkel, Myroslava Khomik, Jessica Bellarby, Martin Jung in Nature (2014)

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    Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes using a multi-method approach

    Ice marginal lakes are a dynamic component of terrestrial meltwater storage at the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Despite their significance to the sea level budget, local flood hazards and bigeochemical f...

    Penelope How, Alexandra Messerli, Eva Mätzler, Maurizio Santoro in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Russian forest sequesters substantially more carbon than previously reported

    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and transition to a new forest inventory system, Russia has reported almost no change in growing stock (+ 1.8%) and biomass (+ 0.6%). Yet remote sensing products indicate...

    Dmitry Schepaschenko, Elena Moltchanova, Stanislav Fedorov in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    A new circa 2007 biomass map for China differs significantly from existing maps

    The forest area of China is the fifth largest of any country, and unlike in many other countries, in recent decades its area has been increasing. However, there are substantial differences in estimates of the ...

    Wenquan Dong, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Maurizio Santoro, Man Chen in Scientific Data (2024)