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A sensible climate solution for the boreal forest

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Climate change could increase fire risk across most of the managed boreal forest. Decreasing this risk by increasing the proportion of broad-leaved tree species is an overlooked mitigation–adaption strategy with multiple benefits.

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Fig. 1: Overview of circumboreal forest management and wildfire patterns.

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R.A., D.A.L., and R.M.B. were supported by the Research Council of Norway (grant 233641/E50). D.A.L. was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (award #EPS-1101245). We thank Dominique Boucher for producing the figure.

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  1. The Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Ås, Norway

    Rasmus Astrup & Ryan M. Bright

  2. Natural Resource Canada, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Québec, Quebec, Canada

    Pierre Y. Bernier

  3. University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, USA

    Hélène Genet

  4. Dartmouth College, Environmental Studies Program, Hanover, NH, USA

    David A. Lutz

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Astrup, R., Bernier, P.Y., Genet, H. et al. A sensible climate solution for the boreal forest. Nature Clim Change 8, 11–12 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-017-0043-3

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