Pawlok, D.; et al. (2018): Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California
Pawlok, D.; Houlton, B. Z.; Wang, Y.; Warlind, D. (2018): Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California. In: Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (7), S. 74027. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aacb39.
„Using a set of modeling experiments, we show that California grasslands are a more resilient C sink than forests in response to 21st century changes in climate, with implications for designing climate-smart Cap and Trade offset policies. The resilience of grasslands to rising temperatures, drought and fire, coupled with the preferential banking of C to belowground sinks, helps to preserve sequestered terrestrial C and prevent it from re-entering the atmosphere.“