ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026
Human-induced biospheric carbon sink: Impact from the Taklamakan Afforestation Project.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Misattributed biospheric carbon sink to the Three-North Program in the Taklamakan Desert may lead to an impractical policy: A commentary.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Concerns on the human-induced biospheric carbon sink in the Taklamakan Desert.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Reply to Gao et al. and Xu: Greening the Taklamakan: Human efforts to convert desert into a carbon sink.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Physiology and the future of animals in shifting-sand deserts: living, moving and thermoregulating in the sand.Conservation physiology · 2026Review
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The Taklamakan Desert, one of the world's largest and driest deserts, has traditionally been considered a biological void. Here, we demonstrate that large-scale ecological restoration is transforming this hyperarid environment into a carbon sink. By analyzing satellite and ground-based data, we find strong seasonal dynamics: During the wet season (Jul to Sep), precipitation increases to 16.3 mm/mo, enhancing vegetation coverage and photosynthetic activity and drawing down atmospheric CO
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