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Respiration in the balance

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Models of how forests will respond to climate change usually assume that carbon dioxide output from decomposing organic matter will increase with global warming. That assumption may be wrong.

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Figure 1: Carbon production by terrestrial ecosystems.
Figure 2: A long-term prediction of the net ecosystem exchange of carbon in a generic northern European forest.

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