Climate Change - Forests

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This page presents notes on scientific published articles related to Forests.

Article: "Rising CO₂ Levels and the Fecundity of Forest Trees."
Carbon dioxide enrichment of 19-year-old loblolly pine for three years resulted in trees twice as likely to be reproductively mature, and produced three times as many cones and seeds.
Source: Science, Volume 292, Number 5514.
Date: 2001 April 6

Article: "Changes in Forest Biomass Carbon Storage in China Between 1949 and 1998."
Chinese forests released about 0.68 petagram of carbon between 1949-1980, then increased by 0.37 petagram by 1998.
Source: Science, Volume 292, Number 5525.
Date: 2001 June 22

Article: "The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temporate and boreal forests."

Mankind, not nature, is controlling the carbon balance of termporate and boreal forests, through forest management and nitrogen deposition.
Net forest carbon sequestration is overwhelmingly driven by nitrogen deposition, largely man-made.

Source: Nature, Volume 447, Number 7146.
Date: 2007 June 14

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