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Nature Climate Change volume 1, pages 190–191 (2011)Cite this article

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Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/pnas.1019576108 (2011)

A team led by Sassan Saatchi of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has combined data from ground measurements, the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System onboard the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) and various remote-sensing databases. With this data they generated a map of the carbon locked up in living trees in the early 2000s, for 75 developing countries that until now lacked proper assessments.

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    In the research highlight 'Agriculture: On good farming' (Nature Climate Change 3, 190; 2011) Delphine Deryng's affiliation should have read McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Corrected in the HTML and PDF versions, after print: 29 July 2011.

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