TY - JOUR
T1 - Adding Tree Rings to North America's National Forest Inventories
T2 - An Essential Tool to Guide Drawdown of Atmospheric CO2
AU - Evans, Margaret E.K.
AU - Justin Derose, R.
AU - Klesse, Stefan
AU - Girardin, Martin P.
AU - Heilman, Kelly A.
AU - Ross Alexander, M.
AU - Arsenault, Andre
AU - Babst, Flurin
AU - Bouchard, Mathieu
AU - Cahoon, Sean M.P.
AU - Campbell, Elizabeth M.
AU - Dietze, Michael
AU - Duchesne, Louis
AU - Frank, David C.
AU - Giebink, Courtney L.
AU - Gómez-Guerrero, Armando
AU - García, Genaro Gutierrez
AU - Hogg, Edward H.
AU - Metsaranta, Juha
AU - Ols, Clementine
AU - Rayback, Shelly A.
AU - Reid, Anya
AU - Ricker, Martin
AU - Schaberg, Paul G.
AU - Shaw, John D.
AU - Sullivan, Patrick F.
AU - Gaytán, Sergio Armando Villela
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Carbon accounting
KW - Carbon sinks
KW - National forest inventory
KW - Negative emissions technologies
KW - Tree rings
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U2 - 10.1093/biosci/biab119
DO - 10.1093/biosci/biab119
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85122776698
SN - 0006-3568
VL - 72
SP - 233
EP - 246
JO - BioScience
JF - BioScience
IS - 3
ER -