The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests

Federico Magnani (), Maurizio Mencuccini, Marco Borghetti, Paul Berbigier, Frank Berninger, Sylvain Delzon, Achim Grelle, Pertti Hari, Paul G. Jarvis, Pasi Kolari, Andrew S. Kowalski, Harry Lankreijer, Beverly E. Law, Anders Lindroth, Denis Loustau, Giovanni Manca, John B. Moncrieff, Mark Rayment, Vanessa Tedeschi, Riccardo Valentini and John Grace
Additional contact information
Federico Magnani: University of Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
Maurizio Mencuccini: School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH93JU, UK
Marco Borghetti: Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Basilicata, Potenza I-85100, Italy
Paul Berbigier: INRA, UR1263 EPHYSE, Villenave d'Ornon F-33883, France
Frank Berninger: Departement des Sciences Biologiques, University of Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, H3C 3P8, Canada
Sylvain Delzon: INRA, UR1263 EPHYSE, Villenave d'Ornon F-33883, France
Achim Grelle: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
Pertti Hari: University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
Paul G. Jarvis: School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH93JU, UK
Pasi Kolari: University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
Andrew S. Kowalski: INRA, UR1263 EPHYSE, Villenave d'Ornon F-33883, France
Harry Lankreijer: Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
Beverly E. Law: College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Anders Lindroth: Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
Denis Loustau: INRA, UR1263 EPHYSE, Villenave d'Ornon F-33883, France
Giovanni Manca: University of Tuscia, Viterbo I-01100 Italy
John B. Moncrieff: School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH93JU, UK
Mark Rayment: School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH93JU, UK
Vanessa Tedeschi: Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Basilicata, Potenza I-85100, Italy
Riccardo Valentini: University of Tuscia, Viterbo I-01100 Italy
John Grace: School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH93JU, UK

Nature, 2007, vol. 447, issue 7146, 849-851

Abstract: Forests in the balance A study of forest ecosystems from across western Europe and the United States has settled a long-running controversy — and raised many new questions. At issue is the influence of nitrogen deposition on the global carbon cycle, particularly the part played by human activity. The new study demonstrates that via the direct effects of forest management and indirectly via the use of nitrogen fertilizers and nitrogen oxide production by cars and industry, human activities have had a profound and largely positive effect on the carbon balance or net ecosystem production. (That's the balance between ecosystem carbon fixation through photosynthesis and its subsequent release through plant and soil respiration.) The implications of these findings for practical questions such as the merits of fertilizing forests with nitrogen, are considered in the accompanying News and Views by Peter Högberg.

Date: 2007
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (10)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05847 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:447:y:2007:i:7146:d:10.1038_nature05847

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature05847

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().