Old-growth forest carbon sinks overestimated

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¹ Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark. pgu@ign.ku.dk.
² Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
³ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

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Per Gundersen et al. Nature. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;591(7851):E21-E23.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03266-z. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

¹ Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark. pgu@ign.ku.dk.
² Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
³ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

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Luyssaert S, Schulze ED, Knohl A, Law BE, Ciais P, Grace J. Luyssaert S, et al. Nature. 2021 Mar;591(7851):E24-E25. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03267-y. Nature. 2021. PMID: 33762762 No abstract available.

Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks.
Luyssaert S, Schulze ED, Börner A, Knohl A, Hessenmöller D, Law BE, Ciais P, Grace J. Luyssaert S, et al. Nature. 2008 Sep 11;455(7210):213-5. doi: 10.1038/nature07276. Nature. 2008. PMID: 18784722

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