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Anders Ahlström

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African tropical rainforest net carbon dioxide fluxes in the twentieth century

Författare

  • Joshua B. Fisher
  • Munish Sikka
  • Stephen Sitch
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Benjamin Poulter
  • David Galbraith
  • Jung-Eun Lee
  • Chris Huntingford
  • Nicolas Viovy
  • Ning Zeng
  • Anders Ahlström
  • Mark R. Lomas
  • Peter E. Levy
  • Christian Frankenberg
  • Sassan Saatchi
  • Yadvinder Malhi

Summary, in English

The African humid tropical biome constitutes the second largest rainforest region, significantly impacts global carbon cycling and climate, and has undergone major changes in functioning owing to climate and land-use change over the past century. We assess changes and trends in CO2 fluxes from 1901 to 2010 using nine land surface models forced with common driving data, and depict the inter-model variability as the uncertainty in fluxes. The biome is estimated to be a natural (no disturbance) net carbon sink (−0.02 kg C m−2 yr−1 or −0.04 Pg C yr−1, p < 0.05) with increasing strength fourfold in the second half of the century. The models were in close agreement on net CO2 flux at the beginning of the century (σ1901 = 0.02 kg C m−2 yr−1), but diverged exponentially throughout the century (σ2010 = 0.03 kg C m−2 yr−1). The increasing uncertainty is due to differences in sensitivity to increasing atmospheric CO2, but not increasing water stress, despite a decrease in precipitation and increase in air temperature. However, the largest uncertainties were associated with the most extreme drought events of the century. These results highlight the need to constrain modelled CO2 fluxes with increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations and extreme climatic events, as the uncertainties will only amplify in the next century.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

9-20120376

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volym

368

Issue

1625

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Royal Society Publishing

Ämne

  • Physical Geography

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1471-2970