Chen et al. (2025): Rise in wetland carbon uptake linked to increased potential evapotranspiration
Jiankun Chen, Zhuangsheng Tang, Xiaoyan Kang, Nianpeng He, Mingxu Li, IN: Environmental Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.121778
Precisely assessing wetland net ecosystem productivity (NEP) is important for accurately evaluating global carbon budgets. However, constrained by the quality of observational data and insufficient understanding of driving mechanisms, assessments of China’s wetland NEP still have considerable uncertainties. Therefore, this study assessed continuous observations from 30 eddy covariance flux towers across various wetland types in China and applied the random forest (RF) model to simulate the spatiotemporal dynamics of China’s wetland NEP.