Research
Regional land carbon shifts strengthen atmospheric carbon dioxide–land carbon flux coupling
Nature · By Shuxin Luo ·
The Brief
- A study in Nature Geoscience, published online 10 November 2026, reports that regional contributions to the land carbon flux have become more coupled to interannual atmospheric CO2 fluctuations from 1959 to 2022.
- The paper is identified by doi 10.1038/s41561-026-02136-5.
Why it matters
It links regional changes in land carbon to year-to-year variation in atmospheric CO2, which bears on how the land carbon sink is understood and monitored.
Who’s affected
- climate scientists
- carbon cycle researchers
- #carbon cycle
- #land carbon sink
- #atmospheric co2
- #climate science
Nature Geoscience, Published online: 10 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02136-5 Changes in the regional contribution to the flux of carbon from land have become more coupled to interannual atmospheric carbon dioxide fluctuations from 1959 to 2022, making land carbon sink…
Timeline
Study published online in Nature Geoscience
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Regional land carbon shifts strengthen atmospheric carbon dioxide–land carbon flux coupling