Observed impacts of large wind farms on grassland carbon cycling

Donghai Wu¹, Steven M Grodsky², Wenfang Xu³, Naijing Liu⁴, Rafael M Almeida⁵, Liming Zhou⁶, Lee M Miller⁷, Somnath Baidya Roy⁸, Geng Xia⁹, Anurag A Agrawal¹⁰, Benjamin Z Houlton¹¹, Alexander S Flecker¹⁰, Xiangtao Xu¹²

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¹ Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA. Electronic address: donghaiwu@scbg.ac.cn.
² U.S. Geological Survey, New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA.
³ Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
⁴ POWERCHINA Northwest Engineering Corporation Limited, Xi'an 710065, China.
⁵ School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg TX 78539, USA.
⁶ Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, Albany NY 12222, USA.
⁷ Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland WA 99354, USA.
⁸ Centre for Atmospheric Science, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India.
⁹ National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO 80401, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA.
¹¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA; Department of Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA.
¹² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA. Electronic address: xx286@cornell.edu.

PMID: 39492018
DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2023.10.016

Observed impacts of large wind farms on grassland carbon cycling

Donghai Wu et al. Sci Bull (Beijing). 2023.

. 2023 Oct 20:S2095-9273(23)00716-8.

doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2023.10.016. Online ahead of print.

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¹ Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA. Electronic address: donghaiwu@scbg.ac.cn.
² U.S. Geological Survey, New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA.
³ Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
⁴ POWERCHINA Northwest Engineering Corporation Limited, Xi'an 710065, China.
⁵ School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg TX 78539, USA.
⁶ Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, Albany NY 12222, USA.
⁷ Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland WA 99354, USA.
⁸ Centre for Atmospheric Science, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India.
⁹ National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO 80401, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA.
¹¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA; Department of Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA.
¹² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA. Electronic address: xx286@cornell.edu.

PMID: 39492018
DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2023.10.016

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Observed impacts of large wind farms on grassland carbon cycling

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