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Taking stock of forest carbon

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Forests take up and store large quantities of carbon. An analysis of inventory data from across the globe suggests that temperate and boreal forests accounted for the majority of the terrestrial carbon sink over the past two decades.

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Figure 1: The global forest carbon sink.

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  1. Peter B. Reich is at the Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA, and the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Sydney, News South Wales, Australia,

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Reich, P. Taking stock of forest carbon. Nature Clim Change 1, 346–347 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1233

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