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Reforestation can sequester two petagrams of carbon in US topsoils in a century
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Significance: Forestland in the United States is a carbon (C) sink, offsetting ∼10% of annual greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. Most of the C in forests is held in soils, and the capacity of forest soils to sequester C makes them a major component of the US forest C sink. Where reforestation is presently occurring, either through deliberate replanting after forestland is disturbed (e.g., burned), or where previously nonforested lands (e.g., cultivated) are converting to forestland, topsoils are accumulating C. However, these C accumulation rates are poorly constrained; quantifying them with empirical data are critical to accurately represent the role of reforestation in the US C budget and forecast the longevity of the US forest C sink.
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- Authors
- Nave, L. E., Domke, G. M., Hofmeister, K. L., Mishra, U., Perry, C. H., Walters, B. F., & Swanston, C. W.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- US Forest Service (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Argonne National Laboratory (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2018-02-26
- Volume
- 115
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 2776-2781
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC5856546
- OpenAlex
- W2788264769
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- 122
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- Funders
- USDA-Forest Service (13-CR-112306-077, 16-CR-112306-071)
- National Science Foundation (EF-1340681)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest ecology and management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest, Soil, and Plant Ecology in China
- Keywords
- reforestation, carbon sequestration, forest soils, topsoil carbon, forest carbon sink, carbon accumulation rates, greenhouse gas emissions reduction, land use change, cultivated land conversion, United States forests
- MeSH terms
- Carbon, Environmental Monitoring, Soil, Trees, United States, Greenhouse Effect, Forests
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