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Stephen Sitch
Researcher at University of Exeter
Publications - 321
Citations - 65289
Stephen Sitch is an academic researcher from University of Exeter. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Carbon cycle. The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 262 publications receiving 52236 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen Sitch include Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & Lund University.
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A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests
Yude Pan,Richard Birdsey,Jingyun Fang,Jingyun Fang,Richard A. Houghton,Pekka E. Kauppi,Werner A. Kurz,Oliver L. Phillips,Anatoly Shvidenko,Simon L. Lewis,Josep G. Canadell,Philippe Ciais,Robert B. Jackson,Stephen W. Pacala,A. David McGuire,Shilong Piao,Aapo Rautiainen,Stephen Sitch,Daniel J. Hayes +18 more
TL;DR: The total forest sink estimate is equivalent in magnitude to the terrestrial sink deduced from fossil fuel emissions and land-use change sources minus ocean and atmospheric sinks, with tropical estimates having the largest uncertainties.
Supporting Online Material for A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests
Yude Pan,Richard A. Birdsey,Jingyun Fang,Richard A. Houghton,Pekka E. Kauppi,Werner A. Kurz,Oliver L. Phillips,Anatoly Shvidenko,Simon L. Lewis,Philippe Ciais,Robert B. Jackson,Stephen W. Pacala,A. David McGuire,Shilong Piao,Aapo Rautiainen,Stephen Sitch,Daniel J. Hayes +16 more
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Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model
Stephen Sitch,Benjamin Smith,Iain Colin Prentice,Almut Arneth,Alberte Bondeau,Wolfgang Cramer,Jed O. Kaplan,Samuel Levis,Samuel Levis,Wolfgang Lucht,Martin T. Sykes,Kirsten Thonicke,Sergey Venevsky +12 more
TL;DR: The LPJ model as mentioned in this paper combines process-based, large-scale representations of terrestrial vegetation dynamics and land-atmosphere carbon and water exchanges in a modular framework, including feedback through canopy conductance between photosynthesis and transpiration and interactive coupling between these 'fast' processes and other ecosystem processes.
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Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models
Wolfgang Cramer,Alberte Bondeau,F. Ian Woodward,I. Colin Prentice,Richard Betts,Victor Brovkin,Peter M. Cox,Veronica A. Fisher,Jonathan A. Foley,Andrew D. Friend,Christopher J. Kucharik,Mark R. Lomas,Navin Ramankutty,Stephen Sitch,Benjamin Smith,Andrew White,Christine Young-Molling +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the possible responses of ecosystem processes to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate change are illustrated using six dynamic global vegetation models that explicitly represent the interactions of ecosystem carbon and water exchanges with vegetation dynamics.
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Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
Corinne Le Quéré,Corinne Le Quéré,Michael R. Raupach,Josep G. Canadell,Gregg Marland,Laurent Bopp,Philippe Ciais,Thomas J. Conway,Scott C. Doney,Richard A. Feely,Pru N Foster,Pierre Friedlingstein,Kevin R. Gurney,Richard A. Houghton,Joanna Isobel House,Chris Huntingford,Peter Levy,Mark R. Lomas,Joseph D. Majkut,Nicolas Metzl,Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto,Glen P. Peters,I. Colin Prentice,James T. Randerson,Steven W. Running,Jorge L. Sarmiento,Ute Schuster,Stephen Sitch,Taro Takahashi,Nicolas Viovy,Guido R. van der Werf,F. Ian Woodward +31 more
TL;DR: In the past 50 years, the fraction of CO2 emissions that remains in the atmosphere each year has likely increased, from about 40% to 45%, and models suggest that this trend was caused by a decrease in the uptake of CO 2 by the carbon sinks in response to climate change and variability as mentioned in this paper.