Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential.
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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
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07
2022
accepted:
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10
2023
medline:
11
12
2023
pubmed:
14
11
2023
entrez:
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11
2023
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Résumé
Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system
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pubmed: 37957399
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06723-z
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06723-z
pmc: PMC10700142
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Substances chimiques
Carbon
7440-44-0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Pagination
92-101Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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