{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["15(1)"],"submitter":["Yue C"],"pubmed_abstract":["Unleashing the land sector's potential for climate mitigation requires purpose-driven changes in land management. However, contributions of past management changes to the current global and regional carbon cycles remain unclear. Here, we use vegetation modelling to reveal how a portfolio of ecological restoration policies has impacted China's terrestrial carbon balance through developing counterfactual 'no-policy' scenarios. Pursuing conventional policies and assuming no changes in climate or atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) since 1980 would have led China's land sector to be a carbon source of 0.11 Pg C yr<sup>-1</sup> for 2001-2020, in stark contrast to a sink of 175.9 Tg C yr<sup>-1</sup> in reality. About 72.7% of this difference can be attributed to land management changes,"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pagination":["9708"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11550817"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Contributions of ecological restoration policies to China's land carbon balance."],"pmcid":["PMC11550817"],"pubmed_authors":["Xu M","Ciais P","Piao S","He J","Zhang H","Xu C","Deng L","Zhang L","Shen H","Wang J","Zhang P","Yue C","Li W","Li Y","Zhu L","Tao S","Leng Y","Chang J","Zhao J"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Contributions of ecological restoration policies to China's land carbon balance.","description":"Unleashing the land sector's potential for climate mitigation requires purpose-driven changes in land management. However, contributions of past management changes to the current global and regional carbon cycles remain unclear. Here, we use vegetation modelling to reveal how a portfolio of ecological restoration policies has impacted China's terrestrial carbon balance through developing counterfactual 'no-policy' scenarios. Pursuing conventional policies and assuming no changes in climate or atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) since 1980 would have led China's land sector to be a carbon source of 0.11 Pg C yr<sup>-1</sup> for 2001-2020, in stark contrast to a sink of 175.9 Tg C yr<sup>-1</sup> in reality. About 72.7% of this difference can be attributed to land management changes,","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Nov","modification":"2025-04-04T00:33:06.758Z","creation":"2025-04-04T00:33:06.758Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11550817","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39521789"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-024-54100-9"]}}