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SUBMITTER: Wolf S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4889356 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wolf Sebastian S Keenan Trevor F TF Fisher Joshua B JB Baldocchi Dennis D DD Desai Ankur R AR Richardson Andrew D AD Scott Russell L RL Law Beverly E BE Litvak Marcy E ME Brunsell Nathaniel A NA Peters Wouter W van der Laan-Luijkx Ingrid T IT
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160425 21
The global terrestrial carbon sink offsets one-third of the world's fossil fuel emissions, but the strength of this sink is highly sensitive to large-scale extreme events. In 2012, the contiguous United States experienced exceptionally warm temperatures and the most severe drought since the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, resulting in substantial economic damage. It is crucial to understand the dynamics of such events because warmer temperatures and a higher prevalence of drought are projected in a ...[more]