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ArticleNature communications2026

Increased maximum carbon release offsets half of the growth trend in annual land carbon sink.

Yu Bai, Zheng Fu, Josep Peñuelas, Philippe Ciais, Fangyue Zhang, Paul C Stoy, Alessandro Cescatti, Stephen Sitch, Mirco Migliavacca, William K Smith and 5 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Yu BaiKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9914-022X
Zheng FuKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. fuzheng@igsnrr.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7627-8824
Josep PeñuelasCSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7215-0150
Philippe CiaisLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8560-4943
Fangyue ZhangCollege of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5479-6214
Paul C StoyDepartment of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Alessandro CescattiEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2769-2591
Stephen SitchFaculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1821-8561
Mirco MigliavaccaEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3546-8407
William K SmithSchool of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5785-6489
Weize TangKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Yiqi LuoSoil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4556-0218
Yulin ShangguanCollege of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Kai WangInstitute of Carbon Neutrality, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6269-3517
Michael O'SullivanFaculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6278-3392

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The terrestrial carbon sink has strengthened in recent decades through enhanced maximum CO

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PMID42823408
PMCPMC13631231

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