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DOI	10.1038/s41558-021-01034-5
	Woody-biomass projections and drivers of change in sub-Saharan Africa
	Ross C.W.; Hanan N.P.; Prihodko L.; Anchang J.; Ji W.; Yu Q.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	1758678X
英文摘要	Africa’s ecosystems have an important role in global carbon dynamics, yet consensus is lacking regarding the amount of carbon stored in woody vegetation and the potential impacts to carbon storage in response to changes in climate, land use and other Anthropocene risks. In this study, we explore the socioenvironmental conditions that have shaped the contemporary distribution of woody vegetation across sub-Saharan Africa and evaluate ecosystem response to multiple scenarios of climate change, anthropogenic pressures and fire disturbance. Our projections suggest climate change will have a small but negative effect on above-ground woody biomass at the continental scale, and the compounding effects of population growth, increasing human pressures and socioclimatic-driven changes in fire behaviour further exacerbate climate-driven trends. Relatively modest continental-scale trends obscure much larger regional perturbations, with climatic and anthropogenic factors leading to increased carbon storage potential in East Africa, offset by large deficits in West, Central and Southern Africa. ? 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/178794
作者单位	Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States; Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL, United States; Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ross C.W.,Hanan N.P.,Prihodko L.,et al. Woody-biomass projections and drivers of change in sub-Saharan Africa[J],2021.
APA	Ross C.W.,Hanan N.P.,Prihodko L.,Anchang J.,Ji W.,&Yu Q..(2021).Woody-biomass projections and drivers of change in sub-Saharan Africa.Nature Climate Change.
MLA	Ross C.W.,et al."Woody-biomass projections and drivers of change in sub-Saharan Africa".Nature Climate Change (2021).