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Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-1527-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-1527-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
Research article
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17 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 17 Sep 2025

Carbon–climate feedback higher when assuming Michaelis–Menten kinetics of respiration

Christian Beer

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Fauna and flora respire carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is a major carbon flux into the atmosphere. The underlying biochemical processes are complex, and we generalize them either assuming a first-order chemical reaction of carbon and oxygen to carbon dioxide or assuming enzymatic reactions. Here, we show that these assumptions lead to large differences in estimating the carbon–climate feedback until 2100 and the remaining carbon budget to keep warming below 2°C.
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