The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
      Anders Ahlström, 
      Michael R. Raupach, 
      Guy Schurgers, 
      Benjamin Smith, 
      Almut Arneth, 
      Martin Jung, 
      Markus Reichstein, 
      Josep G. Canadell, 
      Pierre Friedlingstein, 
      Atul K. Jain, 
      Etsushi Kato, 
      Benjamin Poulter, 
      Stephen Sitch, 
      Benjamin D. Stocker, 
      Nicolas Viovy, 
      Ying Ping Wang, 
      Andy Wiltshire, 
      Sönke Zaehle, 
      Ning Zeng
   
  
  
  
  
    
    
      
    
    January 2015