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Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance

A global analysis reveals regional trends of net forest ageing but also that widespread stand-replacing disturbances, such as fire and harvest, are driving declining forest age in many areas, often accompanied by substantial losses in aboveground carbon stocks and shifts in carbon sink dynamics.

Simon Besnard
Viola H. A. Heinrich
Hui Yang
ResearchOpen Access19 Aug 2025
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 9, P: 1848-1860
Author Correction: Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO₂ uptake

Anna-Maria Virkkala
Brendan M. Rogers
Susan M. Natali
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access17 Feb 2025
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 15, P: 335
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO₂ uptake

How the carbon stocks of the Arctic–Boreal Zone change with warming is not well understood. Here the authors show that wildfires and large regional differences in net carbon fluxes offset the overall increasing CO₂ uptake.

Anna-Maria Virkkala
Brendan M. Rogers
Susan M. Natali
ResearchOpen Access21 Jan 2025
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 15, P: 188-195
Author Correction: Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe

Auke M. van der Woude
Wouter Peters
Ingrid T. Luijkx
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access01 Nov 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1
Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe

Heat and moisture stress can reduce carbon uptake by forests. Here, the authors quantify this effect for the extreme 2022 European summer drought. The widespread reduction of photosynthesis exceeded the large local carbon release by intense fires.

Auke M. van der Woude
Wouter Peters
Ingrid T. Luijkx
ResearchOpen Access06 Oct 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-11
Increased water-use efficiency and reduced CO₂ uptake by plants during droughts at a continental scale

Droughts can lead to large-scale decline in net CO₂ uptake and increased water-use efficiency by plants, according to global analyses of atmospheric carbon isotope data from 2001 to 2011. This suggests that current climate models may underestimate carbon–drought feedbacks.

Wouter Peters
Ivar R. van der Velde
James W. C. White
Research27 Aug 2018
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 11, P: 744-748
The key role of forest disturbance in reconciling estimates of the northern carbon sink

A satellite-based estimate of forest regrowth carbon flux across the Northern Hemisphere suggests forest disturbance and regrowth are transient but important aspects of the carbon sink that may explain underestimates from dynamic global vegetation models

Michael O’Sullivan
Stephen Sitch
Sönke Zaehle
ResearchOpen Access15 Nov 2024
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 1-10

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Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance

Author Correction: Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake

Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake

Author Correction: Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe

Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe

Increased water-use efficiency and reduced CO2 uptake by plants during droughts at a continental scale

The key role of forest disturbance in reconciling estimates of the northern carbon sink

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Author Correction: Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO₂ uptake

Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO₂ uptake

Increased water-use efficiency and reduced CO₂ uptake by plants during droughts at a continental scale