• Climate Impacts

    • Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming

      • Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, Philippe Peylin, Markus Reichstein, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Hank Margolis, Jingyun Fang, Alan Barr, Anping Chen, Achim Grelle, David Y. Hollinger, Tuomas Laurila, Anders Lindroth, Andrew D. Richardson, Timo Vesala,
      • Original article citation: Nature 451," 49 - 52, (2008).
      • Categories: Climate Impacts, Biology, and Earth Sciences
      • Recommended by: Anna Barnett on 01/17/2008 04:06PM GMT
      • Reasons for recommending:
        Spring and autumn temperatures at northern latitudes are increasing, leading to longer growing seasons, but this doesn't necessarily mean that the growing plants can sequester more atmospheric carbon. In fact, Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais an colleagues find here that warming in autumn makes plants release more carbon than they take up. John Miller discussed the paper in a News and Views piece in the same issue of Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7174/full/451026a.html

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