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The Terrestrial Carbon Sink
EG43CH09_Keenan ARI 4 October 2018 13:33 Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesThe Terrestrial Carbon Keenan1,2and Williams31 Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720,USA2 Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California,Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA; email: School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA;email: Rev. Environ. Resour. 2018. 43:219 43 First published as a Review in Advance onSeptember 26, 2018 TheAnnual Review of Environment and Resourcesisonline at 2018 by Annual rights reservedKeywordsbiogeochemical, Carbon , cycle, ecosystem, land surface, model, nutrients,plant, Terrestrial biosphere, vegetation, waterAbstractLife on Earth comes in many forms, but all life-forms share a commonelement in Carbon .
Carbon enters the leaves in gaseous form as carbon dioxide (CO 2), where it is converted through photosynthesis into sugars and starches (2). The total flux of carbon removed is more than ten times greater than what is emitted into the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels (3) and is the source of sustenance for the majority of life on Earth.
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