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Terrestrial biogeochemistry

Carbon turnover gets wet

The biological processes that control the release of carbon stored in land are dependent on water availability. A global analysis of temperature sensitivity reveals how hydrometeorological processes modulate the response of land carbon turnover to temperature.

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Fig. 1: A peatland ecosystem in Peru.

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Huang, Y., Wang, Y. Carbon turnover gets wet. Nat. Geosci. 15, 960–961 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01098-8

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