BECC researcher at Gothenburg University, Louise Rüttinger, is one of the researchers behind a new study which shows that forests on nutrient-poor land won’t be an additional carbon sink in the long term. As forests age, their uptake of CO2 declines and, each time forests are planted, there is a risk of additional carbon being released from the soil.
Further reading
Continue reading the article on Gothenburg University website:
Planting trees not always an effective way of binding carbon dioxide
The study was published in Global Change Biology
Links across ecological scales: Plant biomass responses to elevated CO2