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Many human activities tend to reduce the amount of carbon in plants and soils (Woodwell et al 1983, Houghton et al 1983, Houghton and Skole 1990). Houghton et al (1983) estimate that forest clearing and harvest released 180 Pg (1 Pg = 1 x 1015g) of carbon into the atmosphere between 1860 and 1980 compared to about 163 Pg from fossil fuel emissions over the same period (Marland et al 1989)–terrestrial releases exceeded fossil fuel emissions until about 1959, according to these estimates. The 1990 net flux of carbon into the atmosphere, mostly due to tropical deforestation, may have approached 3 Pg/year (Houghton, this volume). Thus the use and manipulation of terrestrial ecosystems probably caused a significant part of the observed increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration (Bolin 1986, Post et al 1990).
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Emanuel, W.R., King, A.W., Post, W.M. (1993). A Dynamic Model of Terrestrial Carbon Cycling. In: Heimann, M. (eds) The Global Carbon Cycle. NATO ASI Series, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84608-3_10
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