Nature – Besnard et al. (2025): Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance
Simon Besnard, Viola H. A. Heinrich, Nuno Carvalhais, Philippe Ciais, Martin Herold, Ingrid Luijkx, Wouter Peters, Daniela Requena Suarez, Maurizio Santoro and Hui Yang, IN: Nature Ecology & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02821-5
Forest age transitions are critical in shaping the global carbon balance, yet their influence on carbon stocks and fluxes remains poorly quantified. Here the authors analyse global forest age dynamics from 2010 to 2020 using the Global Age Mapping Integration v2.0 dataset, alongside satellite-derived aboveground carbon (AGC) and atmospheric inversion-derived net COâ‚‚ flux data.