The tropical Asian carbon sink

Climate Change Tropical vegetation plays a key role in the global carbon cycle, and much current research focuses on the extent to which it will continue to act as a carbon sink in the coming decades as the climate continues to warm. Scheiter et al. modeled the responses of tropical Asian vegetation under scenarios of future climate change. Their results indicate that woody biomass in the region is likely to increase and natural evergreen vegetation will get taller owing to the fertilization effect of increasing carbon dioxide, a result that is robust under different climate models until the end of this century. However, the resulting persistence of a carbon sink also depends on effective conservation measures to ensure that the forest vegetation persists too. Glob. Chang. Biol. 10.1111/GCB.15217 (2020).