Has fire suppression increased the amount of carbon stored in western U.S. forests?

Active 20th century fire suppression in western US forests, and a resulting increase in stem density, is thought to account for a significant fraction of the North American carbon sink. We compared California forest inventories from the 1930s with inventories from the 1990s to quantify changes in ab...

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Main Authors: Aaron W. Fellows, Michael L. Goulden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2008-06-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL033965
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