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Arising from: N. Gedney et al. Nature 439, 835–838 (2006); Gedney et al. reply
Gedney et al.1 attribute an increase in the twentieth-century continental runoff to the suppression of plant transpiration by CO2-induced stomatal closure, by replicating a continental runoff data set2. However, we have concerns about this data set and the methods used to construct it, in addition to those already raised3, which we believe may undermine their conclusions.
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Peel, M., McMahon, T. A quality-controlled global runoff data set. Nature 444, E14 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05480
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