Fig. 5: Co-benefits of future forestation on carbon stock and ozone air quality.
From: Co-benefit of forestation on ozone air quality and carbon storage in South China
The filled green bars in (a) and (b) denote the Chinese forest LAI estimated in 2005, 2019, 2030, and 2050. Brown, blue, light green, and dark green lines in (a) and (b) represent values (means ± one standard deviation) of Chinese forest biomass carbon stocks (a) and changes in the regional surface MDA8 ozone concentration over South China during the growing season relative to the 2019 Base simulation (b). Under the future 2030 scenarios in (b), changes in the MDA8 ozone concentration over South China relative to the 2019 Base due to anthropogenic emissions changes in scenarios SSP126 and SSP370 with (black dashed lines) or without (green dashed lines) considering future forestation are also shown.
