Biogeochemistry: Climatic plant power

Yves Goddéris (1) , Yannick Donnadieu (2, 3)

1 LMTG - Laboratoire des Mécanismes et Transfert en Géologie
2 LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette]
3 CLIM - Modélisation du climat

Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide constrain vegetation types and thus also non-biological uptake during rock weathering. That's the reasoning used to explain why CO$_2$ levels did not fall below a certain point in the Miocene

Domains: Environmental Sciences; Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Earth Sciences; Climatology; Environmental Sciences; Global Changes

Yves Goddéris, Yannick Donnadieu. Biogeochemistry: Climatic plant power. Nature, 2009, 460 (7251), pp.40-41. ⟨10.1038/460040a⟩. ⟨cea-00909685⟩