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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-767-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-767-2023
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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14 Aug 2023
Research article |
| 14 Aug 2023
| 14 Aug 2023
Evaluating nitrogen cycling in terrestrial biosphere models: a disconnect between the carbon and nitrogen cycles
Sian Kou-Giesbrecht
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Climate Research Division, Environment Canada, Victoria, Canada
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Vivek K. Arora
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Climate Research Division, Environment Canada, Victoria, Canada
Christian Seiler
School of Environmental Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Almut Arneth
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Atmospheric Environmental Research, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Stefanie Falk
Department für Geographie, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Atul K. Jain
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Fortunat Joos
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger
Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Daniel Kennedy
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Terrestrial Sciences Section, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Jürgen Knauer
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
Stephen Sitch
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter,
Exeter, UK
Michael O'Sullivan
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter,
Exeter, UK
Naiqing Pan
Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger
Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Hanqin Tian
Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA
Nicolas Vuichard
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Sönke Zaehle
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models K. Rocci et al. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109272
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Short summary
Nitrogen (N) is an essential limiting nutrient to terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration. We evaluate N cycling in an ensemble of terrestrial biosphere models. We find that variability in N processes across models is large. Models tended to overestimate C storage per unit N in vegetation and soil, which could have consequences for projecting the future terrestrial C sink. However, N cycling measurements are highly uncertain, and more are necessary to guide the development of N cycling in models.
Nitrogen (N) is an essential limiting nutrient to terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration. We...
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