A decade-long study reveals that Sweden’s old-growth forests store up to 89% more carbon than managed forests. Researchers found that the soil alone in these ancient ecosystems holds as much carbon as the trees, dead wood, and soil of managed forests combined.
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Higher carbon storage in primary than secondary boreal forests in Sweden
Boreal forests provide considerable global land carbon storage and uptake, but they are being rapidly transformed to managed secondary forests, with poorly quantified implications for ecosystem carbon storage. Here we present data from extensive mapping ...
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