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Updated 16 November 2007

OUR CHANGING PLANET The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2008 A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and The Subcommittee on Global Change Research A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2008 Budget

Figure 10. Potential Carbon Gains from Afforestation Potential afforestation carbon gains in (a) relatively low-production crop areas, and (b) relatively low-production rangelands. Both panels are mapped to show predicted gross carbon sink flux per year at 1-km resolution. Corrections for probable net primary productivity loss over time due to decomposition, disturbance, and aging in predicted forest stands are not included. Credit: C. Potter and M. Fladeland, NASA / Ames Research Center; S. Klooster and V. Genovese, California State University – Monterey Bay; and S. Hiatt, San Jose State University and Education Associates (reproduced from Climatic Change with permission from Springer Netherlands). Back to Global Carbon Cycle >>

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