The effect of carbon fertilization on naturally regenerated and planted US forests.

ABSTRACT: Over the last half century in the United States, the per-hectare volume of wood in trees has increased, but it is not clear whether this increase has been driven by forest management, forest recovery from past land uses, such as agriculture, or other environmental factors such as elevated carbon dioxide, nitrogen deposition, or climate change. This paper uses empirical analysis to estimate the effect of elevated carbon dioxide on aboveground wood volume in temperate forests of the United States. To accomplish this, we employ matching techniques that allow us to disentangle the effects of elevated carbon dioxide from other environmental factors affecting wood volume and to estimate the effects separately for planted and natural stands. We show that elevated carbon dioxide has had a strong a

SUBMITTER: Davis EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9485135 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature