ArticleBioscience2022
Adding Tree Rings to North America's National Forest Inventories: An Essential Tool to Guide Drawdown of Atmospheric CO2.
Article in Bioscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Conceptual pitfalls in the forest carbon debate : Comment solicited by Prof Yiping (Rocky) Wu, 30 Aug. 2025, revised Dec 2025.Carbon balance and management · 2026Article
- Thermal Imaging of Conducting Sapwood Width Enhances Dendroecological Studies in Southwestern U.S. Conifers.Trees (Berlin, Germany : West) · 2025Article
- We need a solid scientific basis for nature-based climate solutions in the United States.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Increasing atmospheric dryness reduces boreal forest tree growth.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
Tree-ring time series provide long-term, annually resolved information on the growth of trees. When sampled in a systematic context, tree-ring data can be scaled to estimate the forest carbon capture and storage of landscapes, biomes, and-ultimately-the globe. A systematic effort to sample tree rings in national forest inventories would yield unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution of forest carbon dynamics and help resolve key scientific uncertainties, which we highlight in terms of evidence for forest greening (enhanced growth) versus browning (reduced growth, increased mortality). We describe jump-starting a tree-ring collection across the continent of North America, given the commitments of Canada, the United States, and Mexico to visit forest inventory plots, along with existing legacy collections. Failing to do so would be a missed opportunity to help chart an evidence-based path toward meeting national commitments to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions, urgently needed for climate stabilization and repair.
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