Changes in climate and land use have a larger direct impact than rising CO2 on global river runoff trends

By Shilong Piao, Pierre Friedlingstein, Philippe Ciais, N. de Noblet‐Ducoudré, David Labat, S. Zaehle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007

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Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change (2013, background): “Sensitivity experiments confirm that the effect of additional CO2 fertilization of vegetation on the hydrology is comparatively small (26) (SI Appendix, Fig.”
Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply (2010, neutral): “ET seem to be less important; they include stomata closure caused by increasing CO 2 concentrations 16 , land-use change 17 , or decreasing wind speed 18 .”
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