Longer Growing Seasons, Less Carbon Sequestration

U. Colorodo
Where published: Global Change Biology
Lead author: Jia Hu

As global temperatures increase, the potential for longer growing seasons to
enhance the terrestrial carbon sink has been proposed as a mechanism to reduce
the rate of further warming. At the Niwot Ridge AmeriFlux site, a subalpine
forest in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, we used a 9-year record (1999–2007) of
continuous eddy flux observations to show that longer growing season length
(GSL) actually resulted in less annual CO2 uptake.

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