Carbon fractions in the world’s dead wood

Tree mortality is increasing with climate change, which suggests that the biomass of dead wood is likely becoming more and more important to the global carbon cycle. Here, the authors perform a meta-analysis of the carbon content of dead wood and find that past estimates of total forest carbon were...

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Main Authors: Adam R. Martin, Grant M. Domke, Mahendra Doraisami, Sean C. Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21149-9