Nature communications
Enhancing carbon sinks in China using a spatially-optimized forestation strategy.
Yanli Dong, Zhen Yu, Thomas Pugh, Evgenios Agathokleous, Fangmin Zhang, Stephen Sitch, Weibin You, Wangya Han, Stefan Olin, Shirong Liu, Guoyi Zhou, Pedro Cabral, Pengsen Sun
Published: 202610.1038/s41467-026-68288-5
Abstract
China plans expanding 49.5 million hectares of new forests by 2050 to strengthen carbon sequestration. However, estimates of the carbon benefits from this expansion rarely consider the effect of 'forest edge', where tree mortality increases under int…
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