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Carbon Exchange Between the Terrestrial Biosphere and the Atmosphere

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The Global Carbon Cycle

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Abstract

Carbon dioxide is presently the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas, and in contrast to the other greenhouse gases, the human potential to rise its future atmospheric concentration seems to be very high, since the fossil carbon resources (coal, oil, natural gas) probably exceed 6.5 × 1012 tons (6,500 Gt) of carbon. The preindustrial CO2 concentration in the atmosphere of ca. 280 μl-l1 will double within the next 5–6 decades. The predicted global mean warming will then probably be 3.5 ±1.5 °C, according to climate models (Hansen et al. 1988).

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Esser, G. (1993). Carbon Exchange Between the Terrestrial Biosphere and the Atmosphere. In: Heimann, M. (eds) The Global Carbon Cycle. NATO ASI Series, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84608-3_11

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