Carbon stocks and changes of dead organic matter in China's forests

Reliable estimates of the total forest carbon (C) pool are lacking due to insufficient information on dead organic matter (DOM). Here, the authors estimate that the current DOM C stock in China is 925 ± 54 Tg and that it grew by 6.7 ± 2.2 Tg C/yr over the past two decades primarily due to increasing...

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Main Authors: Jianxiao Zhu, Huifeng Hu, Shengli Tao, Xiulian Chi, Peng Li, Lai Jiang, Chengjun Ji, Jiangling Zhu, Zhiyao Tang, Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey, Xinhua He, Jingyun Fang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00207-1