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Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents
Chuixiang Yi, Daniel Ricciuto, Runze Li, John Wolbeck, Xiyan Xu, Mats Nilsson, Luis Aires, John D Albertson, Christof Ammann, M Altaf Arain, Alessandro C de Araujo, Marc Aubinet, Mika Aurela, Zoltán Barcza, Alan Barr, Paul Berbigier, Jason Beringer, Christian Bernhofer, Andrew T Black, Paul V Bolstad, Fred C Bosveld, Mark S J Broadmeadow, Nina Buchmann, Sean P Burns, Pierre Cellier, Jingming Chen, Jiquan Chen, Philippe Ciais, Robert Clement, Bruce D Cook, Peter S Curtis, D Bryan Dail, Ebba Dellwik, Nicolas Delpierre, Ankur R Desai, Sabina Dore, Danilo Dragoni, Bert G Drake, Eric Dufrêne, Allison Dunn, Jan Elbers, Werner Eugster, Matthias Falk, Christian Feigenwinter, Lawrence B Flanagan, Thomas Foken, John Frank, Juerg Fuhrer, Damiano Gianelle, Allen Goldstein, Mike Goulden, Andre Granier, Thomas Grünwald, Lianhong Gu, Haiqiang Guo, Albin Hammerle, Shijie Han, Niall P Hanan, László Haszpra, Bernard Heinesch, Carole Helfter, Dimmie Hendriks, Lindsay B Hutley, Andreas Ibrom, Cor Jacobs, Torbjörn Johansson, Marjan Jongen, Gabriel Katul, Gerard Kiely, Katja Klumpp, Alexander Knohl, Thomas Kolb, Werner L Kutsch, Peter Lafleur, Tuomas Laurila, Ray Leuning, Anders Lindroth, Heping Liu, Benjamin Loubet, Giovanni Manca, Michal Marek, Hank A Margolis, Timothy A Martin, William J Massman, Roser Matamala, Giorgio Matteucci, Harry McCaughey, Lutz Merbold, Tilden Meyers, Mirco Migliavacca, Franco Miglietta, Laurent Misson,, Meelis Mölder, John Moncrieff, Russell K Monson, Leonardo Montagnani, Mario Montes-Helu, Eddy Moors, Christine Moureaux, Mukufute M Mukelabai, J William Munger, May Myklebust, Zoltán Nagy, Asko Noormets, Walter Oechel, Ram Oren, Stephen G Pallardy, Kyaw Tha Paw U, João S Pereira, Kim Pilegaard, Krisztina Pintér, Casimiro Pio, Gabriel Pita, Thomas L Powell, Serge Rambal, James T Randerson, Celso von Randow, Corinna Rebmann, Janne Rinne, Federica Rossi, Nigel Roulet, Ronald J Ryel, Jorgen Sagerfors, Nobuko Saigusa, María José Sanz, Giuseppe-Scarascia Mugnozza, Hans Peter Schmid, Guenther Seufert, Mario Siqueira, Jean-François Soussana, Gregory Starr, Mark A Sutton, John Tenhunen, Zoltán Tuba,, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Riccardo Valentini, Christoph S Vogel, Jingxin Wang, Shaoqiang Wang, Weiguo Wang, Lisa R Welp, Xuefa Wen, Sonia Wharton, Matthew Wilkinson, Christopher A Williams, Georg Wohlfahrt, Susumu Yamamoto, Guirui Yu, Roberto Zampedri, Bin Zhao and Xinquan Zhao
Published 16 August 2010 •
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Environmental Research Letters,
Volume 5,
Number 3
Citation Chuixiang Yi et al 2010 Environ. Res. Lett.5 034007DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034007
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York, NY 11367, USA
Daniel Ricciuto
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Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Runze Li
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Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
John Wolbeck
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School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York, NY 11367, USA
Xiyan Xu
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School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York, NY 11367, USA
Mats Nilsson
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Department of Forest Ecology, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden
Luis Aires
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CESAM and Department of Environmental Engineering, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
John D Albertson
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 22708-0287, USA
Christof Ammann
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Federal Research Station Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046 Zürich, Switzerland
M Altaf Arain
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School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada
Alessandro C de Araujo
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Programa LBA, Campus-II, Manaus—Amazonas 69060, Brazil
Marc Aubinet
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University of Liege, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Unit of Biosystem Physics, 2 Passage des Déportés, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Mika Aurela
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Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate Change Research, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland
Zoltán Barcza
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Department of Meteorology, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány sétány 1/A, Hungary
Alan Barr
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Climate Research Division, Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 3H5, Canada
Paul Berbigier
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INRA, UR1263 EPHYSE, Villenave d'Ornon F-33883, France
Jason Beringer
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School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
Christian Bernhofer
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Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, Dresden University of Technology, Pienner Straße 23, D-01737, Tharandt, Germany
Andrew T Black
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Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Paul V Bolstad
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University of Minnesota, 115 Green Hall 1530 Cleveland Avenue N. St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Fred C Bosveld
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Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, 3730 AE De Bilt, The Netherlands
Mark S J Broadmeadow
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Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey GU10 4LH, UK
Nina Buchmann
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ETH, Zurich, Institute of Plant Science, Universitaetsstrasse 2, Zuerich 8092, Switzerland
Sean P Burns
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National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
Pierre Cellier
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UMR INRA-INA PG—Environment and Arable Crops Unit 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
Jingming Chen
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Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada
Jiquan Chen
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Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390, USA
Philippe Ciais
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LSCE, UMR CEA-CNRS, Batiment 709, CE, L'Orme des Merisiers, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Robert Clement
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School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JU, UK
Bruce D Cook
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Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Peter S Curtis
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Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
D Bryan Dail
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Department of Plant, Soil, and Environmental Science, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
Ebba Dellwik
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Wind Energy Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark, PO 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Nicolas Delpierre
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Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 362, Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, Orsay Cedex F-91405, France
Ankur R Desai
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Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Sabina Dore
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Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
Danilo Dragoni
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Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Bert G Drake
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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA
Eric Dufrêne
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Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 362, Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, Orsay Cedex F-91405, France
Allison Dunn
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Department of Physical and Earth Science, Worcester State College, 486 Chandler Street Worcester, MA 01602, USA
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ESS-CC, Alterra Wageningen UR, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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ETH, Zurich, Institute of Plant Science, Universitaetsstrasse 2, Zuerich 8092, Switzerland
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Atmospheric Science Group, LAWR, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Institute for Meteorology, Climatology and Remote Sensing, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 27, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB, T1K 3M4, Canada
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Department of Micrometeorology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 240 West Prospect, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
Juerg Fuhrer
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Federal Research Station Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046 Zürich, Switzerland
Damiano Gianelle
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IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E Mach, Environment and Natural Resources Area, San Michele all'Adige, I38010 Trento, Italy
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Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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INRA, UMR 1137 Ecologie et Écophysiologie Forestierès, F54280, Champenoux, France
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Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, Department of Meteorology, Piennerstrasse 9, 01737 Tharandtt, Germany
Lianhong Gu
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Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Haiqiang Guo
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Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
Albin Hammerle
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University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ecology Sternwartestrasse 15, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
Shijie Han
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Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People's Republic of China
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Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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Hungarian Meteorological Service, H-1675 Budapest, PO Box 39, Hungary
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University of Liege, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Unit of Biosystem Physics, 2 Passage des Déportés, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
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Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Edinburgh) Bush Estate Penicuik, Midlothian, EH26 0QB, UK
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Department of Hydrology and Geo-Environmental Sciences, Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia
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Biosystems Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark, PO 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Cor Jacobs
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ESS-CC, Alterra Wageningen UR, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Geobiosphere Science Centre, Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
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School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0328, USA
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Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University College Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland
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INRA, Unité d'Agronomie, 234, Avenue du Brézet, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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ETH, Zurich, Institute of Plant Science, Universitaetsstrasse 2, Zuerich 8092, Switzerland
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Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
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Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (vTI), Institut für Agrarrelevante Klimaforschung, Bundesallee 50, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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Department of Geography, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, K9J 7B8, Canada
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Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate Change Research, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland
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CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3023, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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Geobiosphere Science Centre, Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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Department of Physics, Atmospheric Sciences and Geoscience, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39217, USA
Benjamin Loubet
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UMR INRA-INA PG—Environment and Arable Crops Unit 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
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Rende Division, Institute for Atmospheric Pollution, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 87036 Rende, Italy
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Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology, Division of Ecosystems Processes Lab. of Plants Ecological Physiology, Na Sadkach 7 370 050, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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Centre d'études de la forêt Faculté de Foresterie et de Géomatique, Université Laval, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 240 West Prospect, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
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Argonne National Laboratory, Biosciences Division, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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National Research Council, Institute of Agroenvironmental and Forest Biology, 00015 Monterotondo Scalo (RM), Italy
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Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemie, Jena, D-07745, Germany
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NOAA/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-2456, USA
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Remote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, DISAT, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
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CNR-IBIMET, Istituto di Biometeorologia, via Giovanni Caproni 8, 50145 Firenze, Italy
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CNRS-CEFE, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Geobiosphere Science Centre, Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JU, UK
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Servizi Forestali, Agenzia per l'Ambiente, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Università 1, 39100, Bolzano, Italy
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Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
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Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen, NL 6700 AA, The Netherlands
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University of Liege, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Unit of Biosystem Physics, 2 Passage des Déportés, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
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Zambian Meteorological Department, Western Province, Mongu, Zambia
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Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, NC 29695, USA
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Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-4614, USA
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Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0328, USA
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Atmospheric Science Group, LAWR, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
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Biosystems Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark, PO 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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Institute of Botany and Ecophysiology, Agricultural University of Gödöllô, H-2103 Gödöllô, Páter Károly u. 1, Hungary
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CESAM and Department of Environment, University of Aveiro, Aveiro 3810-193, Portugal
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Instituto Superior Tecnico, Mechanical Engineering Department, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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DREAM, CEFE, CNRS, UMR5175, 1919 route de Mende, F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Earth System Science Center, National Institute of Space Research, Cachoeira Paulista, SP 12630, Brazil
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Department of Geography, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, K9J 7B8, Canada
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Department of Physics, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland
Federica Rossi
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CNR-IBIMET, Istituto di Biometeorologia, via Giovanni Caproni 8, 50145 Firenze, Italy
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Department of Geography, McGill University 805, Sherbrooke Street West Montréal, QC, H3A 2K6, Canada
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Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5230, USA
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Department of Forest Ecology, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden
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Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8506, Japan
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Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterraneo, Parque Tecnologico, Charles H Darwin 14, E-46980 Paterna, Spain
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Agricultural Research Council, Department of Agronomy, Forestry and Land Use, 00184 Rome, Italy
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Atmospheric Environmental Research Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Center European Commission, TP 280, I-21020 Ispra, Italy
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Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0328, USA
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INRA, Unité d'Agronomie, 234, Avenue du Brézet, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0206, USA
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Atmospheric Sciences Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian, EH26 0QB, UK
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Department of Plant Ecology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Institute of Botany and Ecophysiology, Agricultural University of Gödöllô, H-2103 Gödöllô, Páter Károly u. 1, Hungary
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Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate Change Research, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland
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Department of Forest Environment and Resources, University of Tuscia, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy
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The University of Michigan Biological Station, Pellston, MI 49769, USA
Jingxin Wang
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School of Mathematics, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116039, People's Republic of China
Shaoqiang Wang
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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China
Weiguo Wang
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IMSG@National Center for Environmental Predictions, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD 20746, USA
Lisa R Welp
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Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China
Sonia Wharton
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Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA
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Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey GU10 4LH, UK
Christopher A Williams
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Graduate Degree Program in Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610-1477, USA
Georg Wohlfahrt
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University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ecology Sternwartestrasse 15, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
Susumu Yamamoto
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Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
Guirui Yu
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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China
Roberto Zampedri
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IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E Mach, Environment and Natural Resources Area, San Michele all'Adige, I38010 Trento, Italy
Bin Zhao
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Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
Xinquan Zhao
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Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810001 Qinghai, People's Republic of China
Understanding the relationships between climate and carbon exchange by
terrestrial ecosystems is critical to predict future levels of atmospheric carbon
dioxide because of the potential accelerating effects of positive climate–carbon cycle
feedbacks. However, directly observed relationships between climate and terrestrial
CO2
exchange with the atmosphere across biomes and continents are lacking. Here we present
data describing the relationships between net ecosystem exchange of carbon (NEE) and
climate factors as measured using the eddy covariance method at 125 unique sites in
various ecosystems over six continents with a total of 559 site-years. We find that NEE
observed at eddy covariance sites is (1) a strong function of mean annual temperature at
mid- and high-latitudes, (2) a strong function of dryness at mid- and low-latitudes, and
(3) a function of both temperature and dryness around the mid-latitudinal belt (45°N). The sensitivity of NEE to mean annual temperature breaks down at ∼ 16 °C
(a threshold value of mean annual temperature), above which no further increase of
CO2
uptake with temperature was observed and dryness influence overrules temperature
influence.
