Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests (original) (raw)

Nature, 2009

Abstract

The response of terrestrial vegetation to a globally changing environment is central to predictions of future levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide 1, 2. The role of tropical forests is critical because they are carbon-dense and highly productive 3, 4. Inventory plots across Amazonia show that old-growth forests have increased in carbon storage over recent decades 5, 6, 7, but the response of one-third of the world's tropical forests in Africa 8 is largely unknown owing to an absence of spatially extensive observation networks 9, 10. ...

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