Global patterns of human and livestock respiration.
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SUBMITTER: Cai Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6006152 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
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Global patterns of human and livestock respiration.
Cai Qixiang Q Yan Xiaodong X Li Yafei Y Wang Leibin L
Scientific reports 20180618 1
Carbon emissions from human and animals has been neglected by previous studies in estimating the carbon cycle of ecosystem. This study first estimates the spatial-temporal patterns of carbon emissions density from human and livestock respiration among countries around the world from 1960-2014. Then we simulate the soil heterotrophic respiration (R<sub>h</sub>) to analyze the contribution of human and livestock respiration to total heterotrophic respiration of global ecosystem. Our results show t ...[more]
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