Articles | Volume 22, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3563-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3563-2025
Research article
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25 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 25 Jul 2025

Ozone causes substantial reductions in the carbon sequestration of managed European forests

Per Erik Karlsson, Patrick Büker, Sam Bland, David Simpson, Katrina Sharps, Felicity Hayes, and Lisa D. Emberson

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Stomatal ozone uptake and the negative impacts on forest growth rates were estimated for European forests. This was translated to annual increments in the forest living biomass carbon stocks, with and without ozone exposure. In the absence of O3 exposure, on average, European forest growth rates would increase by 9%, but the sequestration to the living-biomass carbon stocks would increase by 31% since the sequestration depends on the difference between growth and harvest rates.
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