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Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5699-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5699-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
Research article
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25 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 25 Sep 2018

Legacies of past land use have a stronger effect on forest carbon exchange than future climate change in a temperate forest landscape

Dominik Thom, Werner Rammer, Rita Garstenauer, and Rupert Seidl

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Over the past decades temperate forests were a carbon (C) sink to the atmosphere. Yet the drivers of C uptake and how these affect the future carbon cycle remain uncertain. Our simulation and study revealed that the future C sink of central European forest landscapes is strongly driven by historic land use, while climate change reduces forest C uptake. Compared to land-use change, past natural disturbances (wind and bark beetles) have only marginal effects on the future carbon cycle.
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