16.7: Sources
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Figure 16.1.1: UCAR Center for Science Education. https://scied.ucar.edu/ carbon-cycle.
Figure 16.1.2: Data from Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego; and Pieter Tans, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/.
Figure 16.1.3: Data from University of New Hampshire. 2008. Carbon Pools & Fluxes. http://globecarboncycle.unh.edu/Carb...lsFluxes.shtml.
Figure 16.2.1: Image from © Okea/Fotolia. https://www.sciencedaily.com/ releases/2017/11/171127091115.htm.
Figure 16.2.2: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. http://www.fao.org/docrep/u8480e/U84...graded%20soils.
Figure 16.5.1: Image by Whendee L. Silver.
Figure 16.5.2: USGS, California Water Science Center. Land Subsidence. https://ca.water.usgs.gov/land_subsidence/.
Sources for the Text
16.1 Natural and Working Lands in the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
Schlesinger, W. H. 1991. Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change. Academic Press, Cambridge, MA.
16.2 Soils, Organic Matter, and Greenhouse Gas Dynamics
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FAO. 2010. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010. FAO Forestry Paper 163. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
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Tubiello, F. N., et al. 2015. The contribution of agriculture, forestry and other land use activities to global warming, 1990–2012: not as high as in the past. Global Change Biology 21, 2655–2660.
16.3 The Role of Plants in Carbon Storage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Beer, C., et al. 2010. Terrestrial gross carbon dioxide uptake: global distribution and covariation with climate. Science 329, 834–838.
FAO. 2010. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010. FAO Forestry Paper 163. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
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Kindermann, G. E., et al. 2008. A global forest growing stock, biomass and carbon map based on FAO statistics. Silva Fennica 42, 387–396.
16.4 Emissions Reduction via Management
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16.5 Soil Carbon Recovery and Sequestration
Delonge, M., Ryals, R., and Silver, W. L. 2013. A lifecycle model to evaluate carbon sequestration potential and greenhouse gas dynamics of managed grasslands. Ecosystems 16, 962–979.
Griscom, B. W., et al. 2017. Natural climate solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 114, 11645–11650.
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