Quantifying Human-Mediated Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

Jones, Andrew D., Calvin, Katherine V., Shi, Xiaoying, Di Vittorio, Alan V., Bond-Lamberty, Ben, Thornton, Peter E. and Collins, William D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-9848 (2018) Quantifying Human-Mediated Carbon Cycle Feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (20). 11,370-11,379. ISSN 0094-8276

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Abstract

Changes in land and ocean carbon storage in response to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and associated climate change, known as the concentration-carbon and climate-carbon feedbacks, are principal controls on the response of the climate system to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Such feedbacks have typically been quantified in the context of natural ecosystems, but land management activities are also responsive to future atmospheric carbon and climate changes. Here we show that inclusion of such human-driven responses within an Earth system model shifts both the terrestrial concentration-carbon and climate-carbon feedbacks toward increased carbon storage. We introduce a conceptual framework for decomposing these changes into separate concentration-land cover, climate-land cover, and land cover-carbon effects, providing a parsimonious means to diagnose sources of variation across numerical models capable of estimating such feedbacks.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Publisher Copyright: Published 2018. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	carbon cycle feedbacks,climate impacts on agriculture,coupled human and natural systems,geophysics,general earth and planetary sciences,sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1908
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Jul 2026 13:50
Last Modified:	12 Jul 2026 23:02
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103619
DOI:	10.1029/2018GL079350

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