Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

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  • William R. L. Anderegg
    School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, USA.
  • Anna T. Trugman
    Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
  • Grayson Badgley
    School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, USA.
  • Christa M. Anderson
    World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
  • Ann Bartuska
    Resources for the Future, Washington, DC 20036, USA.
  • Philippe Ciais
    Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace CNRS CEA UVSQ Gif sur Yvette, 91191, France.
  • Danny Cullenward
    Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
  • Christopher B. Field
    Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
  • Jeremy Freeman
    CarbonPlan, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
  • Scott J. Goetz
    School of Informatics and Computing, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
  • Jeffrey A. Hicke
    Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA.
  • Deborah Huntzinger
    School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
  • Robert B. Jackson
    Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
  • John Nickerson
    Climate Action Reserve, Los Angeles, CA 90017, USA.
  • Stephen Pacala
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
  • James T. Randerson
    Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

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<jats:title>Risks to mitigation potential of forests</jats:title> <jats:p> Much recent attention has focused on the potential of trees and forests to mitigate ongoing climate change by acting as sinks for carbon. Anderegg <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> review the growing evidence that forests' climate mitigation potential is increasingly at risk from a range of adversities that limit forest growth and health. These include physical factors such as drought and fire and biotic factors, including the depredations of insect herbivores and fungal pathogens. Full assessment and quantification of these risks, which themselves are influenced by climate, is key to achieving science-based policy outcomes for effective land and forest management. </jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , this issue p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" related-article-type="in-this-issue" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aaz7005">eaaz7005</jats:related-article> </jats:p>

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    Science 368 (6497), eaaz7005-, 2020-06-19

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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