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Fertilizing change

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Carbon cycle–climate feedbacks are expected to diminish the size of the terrestrial carbon sink over the next century. Model simulations suggest that nitrogen availability is likely to play a key role in mediating this response.

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Figure 1: Carbon cycle–climate feedbacks in response to increasing atmospheric CO2 and warming, with and without nitrogen.

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  1. Gordon Bonan is in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA. bonan@ucar.edu,

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Bonan, G. Fertilizing change. Nature Geosci 1, 645–646 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo328

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