Guanyu Dong

Oct 15, 2024 | agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Lei Fan |Guanyu Dong |Philippe Ciais |Xiangming Xiao

1 Introduction Tropical biomes hold the Earth's largest carbon pool (Chen et al., 2017; Pan et al., 2011; Wigneron et al., 2024), especially for tropical forests accounting for approximately half of the global gross primary production (GPP) (Wang et al., 2024). Slight fluctuations of tropical forest growth and mortality could profoundly impact the global carbon balance, and even exacerbate the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations (Espirito-Santo et al., 2014).