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The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

P. FALKOWSKI, R. J. SCHOLES, E. BOYLE, J. CANADELL, D. CANFIELD, J. ELSER, N. GRUBER, K. HIBBARD, P. HÖGBERG, S. LINDER, F. T. MACKENZIE, B. MOORE III, T. PEDERSEN, Y. ROSENTHAL, S. SEITZINGER, V. SMETACEK, W. STEFFEN Abstract Motivated by the rapid increase in atmospheric CO2due to human activities since the Industrial Revolution, several international scientific research programs have analyzed the role of individual components of the Earth system in the global carbon cycle. Our knowledge of the carbon cycle within the oceans, terrestrial ecosystems, and the atmosphere is sufficiently extensive to permit us to conclude that although natural ...