Recognizing the importance of unmanaged forests to mitigate climate change (Letter)
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Kun, Zoltan
DellaSala, Dominick
Keith, Heather
Kormos, Cyril
Mercer, Bernard
Moomaw, William R
Wiezik, Michal
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2020
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The carbon stock in Europe's forests is decreasing and the importance of protecting ‘unmanaged’ forests must be recognised in reversing this process. In order to keep carbon out of the atmosphere and to meet the Paris Agreement goals, the remaining primary forests must be protected and secondary forests should be allowed to continue growing to preserve existing carbon stocks and accumulate additional stocks. Scientific evidence suggests that ‘unmanaged’ forests have higher total biomass carbon stock than secondary forests being actively managed for commodity production or recently abandoned.The carbon stock in Europe's forests is decreasing and the importance of protecting ‘unmanaged’ forests must be recognised in reversing this process. In order to keep carbon out of the atmosphere and to meet the Paris Agreement goals, the remaining primary forests must be protected and secondary forests should be allowed to continue growing to preserve existing carbon stocks and accumulate additional stocks. Scientific evidence suggests that ‘unmanaged’ forests have higher total biomass carbon stock than secondary forests being actively managed for commodity production or recently abandoned.
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Journal Title
Global Change Biology Bioenergy
Volume
12
Issue
12
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© 2020 The Authors. GCB Bioenergy Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
Subject
Agricultural biotechnology
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Agronomy
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology