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Carbon cycling in semiarid systems

Wednesday, May 28th, 2014

There is a cool new paper in Nature showing that semiarid ecosystems can have big effects on overall carbon concentrations in the global atmosphere, primarily through enhanced productivity of vegetation in wet years. The authors write: As the dynamics of dryland systems, which cover 45% of the Earth’s land surface, increase ...

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