The greenhouse gas budget for China's terrestrial ecosystems

Xuhui Wang; Yuanyi Gao; Kai Wang; Yuxing Sang; Yilong Wang; Yuzhong Zhang; Songbai Hong; Yao Zhang; Wenping Yuan

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwad274

The greenhouse gas budget for China's terrestrial ecosystems

Natl Sci Rev. 2023 Oct 27;10(12):nwad274. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwad274. eCollection 2023 Dec.

Authors

Xuhui Wang¹, Yuanyi Gao¹, Kai Wang¹, Yuxing Sang¹, Yilong Wang², Yuzhong Zhang^{3

4}, Songbai Hong¹, Yao Zhang¹, Wenping Yuan⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Coastal Environment and Resources of Zhejiang Province, School of Engineering, Westlake University, China.
⁴ Institute of Advanced Technology, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, China.
⁵ School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Abstract

The first greenhouse gas (GHG) budget accounting over China shows that China's land ecosystems is close to GHG neutral, in contrast to the net GHG source of global land ecosystems.