Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Limits to growth of forest biomass carbon sink under climate change

  • Kai Zhu,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Shuli Niu,
  • Chengjin Chu,
  • Yiqi Luo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05132-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The recovery of North American forests is likely to impact their capacity as a carbon sink. Here, Zhu et al. show a growth in aboveground biomass in various climate change scenarios, with these forests expected to sequester no more than 22% more carbon than current levels by the 2080s.