) by fossil fuel
burning
and land-use
change. As the terrestrial
bio-
sphere is an
active player in the global
carbon
cycle,
changes in land use feed
back to the
climate of the Earth through regulation of the
content of
atmospheric CO2, the most impor-
tant greenhouse gas, and
changing albedo (e.g.,
energy partitioning).
Recently, the
climate modeling community
has started to develop more
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