Nature – Mo et al. (2023): Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential
Lidong Mo, Constantin M. Zohner, Peter B. Reich et al. IN: Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06723-z
Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system. Remote-sensing estimates to quantify carbon losses from global forests are characterized by considerable uncertainty and the authors lack a comprehensive ground-sourced evaluation to benchmark these estimates. Here the authors combine several ground-sourced and satellite-derived approaches to evaluate the scale of the global forest carbon potential outside agricultural and urban lands.