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"The turnover time of terrestrial ecosystem carbon is an emergent ecosystem property that quantifies the strength of land surface on the global carbon cycle–climate feedback. However, observation- and modeling-based estimates of carbon turnover and its response to climate are still characterized by large uncertainties."<Ref>https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2517/2020/</Ref>
"Terrestrial ecosystem carbon turnover time (τ) is the average time that carbon atoms spend in terrestrial ecosystems from the initial photosynthetic fixation until respiratory or non-respiratory loss. Ecosystem turnover time is an emergent property that represents the macro-scale turnover rate of terrestrial carbon that results from different processes such as plant mortality and soil decomposition. Alongside photosynthetic fixation of carbon, τ is a critical ecosystem property that co-determines the terrestrial carbon storage and the terrestrial carbon sink potential. "<Ref>https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2517/2020/</Ref>


= additional sources to expand upon =
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13731 <br>


https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2019-235/essd-2019-235.pdf <br>


= Feed-Back Loops =
= Climate Collapse Implications =
= Rates of Carbon Turnover =
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.15224 <br>


= Sources =
= Sources =

Latest revision as of 00:46, 25 April 2023

"Terrestrial ecosystem carbon turnover time (τ) is the average time that carbon atoms spend in terrestrial ecosystems from the initial photosynthetic fixation until respiratory or non-respiratory loss. Ecosystem turnover time is an emergent property that represents the macro-scale turnover rate of terrestrial carbon that results from different processes such as plant mortality and soil decomposition. Alongside photosynthetic fixation of carbon, τ is a critical ecosystem property that co-determines the terrestrial carbon storage and the terrestrial carbon sink potential. "[1]

additional sources to expand upon

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13731

https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2019-235/essd-2019-235.pdf

Feed-Back Loops

Climate Collapse Implications

Rates of Carbon Turnover

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.15224

Sources