Huang et al. (2025): New evidence for age-related decline in carbon sinks in intact boreal forests
Ni Huang, Li Wang, Jie Pei, Luying Zhu, Shidong Liu, Zheng Niu and Biswajit Nath, IN: Ecological Indicators, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114231
As climate change accelerates, understanding the carbon dynamics of intact forests is critical to climate forecasting, mitigation, and adaptation, but significant uncertainties persist regarding the long-term carbon balance of aging boreal forests. Here, the authors developed a space-for-time substitution approach that used seven separate net ecosystem productivity (NEP) datasets and one forest age dataset to analyze in detail the age-related changes in NEP of intact boreal forests.