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Published: Aug 19, 2011
Vol/Issue: 333(6045)
Pages: 988-993

Authors

Y

Yude Pan

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA 19073, USA.

R

Richard A. Birdsey

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA 19073, USA.

J

Jingyun Fang

Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China.; State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093 China.

R

Richard Houghton

Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02543, USA.

P

Pekka E. Kauppi

University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

W

Werner A. Kurz

Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, V8Z 1M5, Canada.

O

Oliver L. Phillips

School of Geography, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.

A

Anatoly Shvidenko

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.

S

Simon L. Lewis

School of Geography, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.

J

Josep G. Canadell

Global Carbon Project, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Marine and Atmospheric Research, Canberra, Australia.

P

Philippe Ciais

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement CEA-UVSQ-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France.

R

Robert B. Jackson

Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

S

Stephen W. Pacala

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

A

A. David McGuire

U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

S

Shilong Piao

Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China.

A

Aapo Rautiainen

University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

S

Stephen Sitch

School of Geography, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.

D

Daniel Hayes

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.

Cite This Article

Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey, Jingyun Fang, et al. (2011). A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests. Science, 333(6045), 988-993. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1201609

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests

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