Effects of carbon turnover time on terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage

Yan, Yaner; Zhou, Xuhui; Jiang, Lifeng; Luo, Yiqi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5441-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5441-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5441-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 14, issue 23

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04 Dec 2017

Research article |

| 04 Dec 2017

Effects of carbon turnover time on terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage

Yaner Yan, Xuhui Zhou, Lifeng Jiang, and Yiqi Luo

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RC1: 'Interesting but many problems: novelty, assumptions, data availability, presentation, language', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Jun 2017
RC2: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Jun 2017
AC1: 'Response to comment', Yaner Yan, 31 Aug 2017

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (31 Aug 2017) by Alexey V. Eliseev

AR by Yaner Yan on behalf of the Authors (12 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Oct 2017) by Alexey V. Eliseev

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (25 Oct 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (25 Oct 2017) by Alexey V. Eliseev

AR by Yaner Yan on behalf of the Authors (31 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

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The effects of C turnover time on ecosystem C storage have not been well explored, so we quantified the spatial variation in ecosystem C storage over time from changes in C turnover time and/or NPP. Our results showed that the terrestrial C release caused by the decrease in MTT only accounted for about 13.5 % of that due to the change in NPP uptake. However, the larger uncertainties in the spatial variation of MTT than temporal changes would lead to a greater impact on ecosystem C storage.