Legacies of past land use have a stronger effect on forest carbon exchange than future climate change in a temperate forest landscape

<p>Forest ecosystems play an important role in the global climate system and are thus intensively discussed in the context of climate change mitigation. Over the past decades temperate forests were a carbon (C) sink to the atmosphere. However, it remains unclear to which degree this C uptak...

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Main Authors: D. Thom, W. Rammer, R. Garstenauer, R. Seidl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2018-09-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:https://www.biogeosciences.net/15/5699/2018/bg-15-5699-2018.pdf