TY - JOUR
AB - Preface Terrestrial carbon sinks play a central role in the international climate negotiations and within national strategies to slow down net greenhouse gase emissions. In particular, there is a great interest in land-use options that enhance carbon sinks and/or reduce emissions from deforestation. Climate mitigation efforts are also becoming more integrated into the larger portfolio of environmental and socio-economic activities geared towards sustain- able development. In this respect, management of the terrestrial carbon cycle is even more important because it is fundamentally linked to multiple ecosystem properties and services essential to human wellbeing. To support this effort there is an urgent need to improve process understanding of land carbon sources and sinks, and to develop capabilities that will allow operational monitoring of the dynamic evolution of the carbon cycle. In this special issue we present a number of scientific developments aligned with these research and policy needs. The first set of papers are concerned with the consequences of past and future land-use change for the functioning of the terrestrial carbon cycle (Gitz and Ciais; Levy et al.). The papers set the stage for some of the consequences of past and future actions taken to promote economical development or mitigate 
TI - Quantifying Terrestrial Carbon Sinks
JF - Climatic Change
DO - 10.1007/s10584-004-3764-z
DA - 2004-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/quantifying-terrestrial-carbon-sinks-xSMMTBJR7G
SP - 145
EP - 146
VL - 67
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -