Editorial - Peer-reviewed, 2022
The impact of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on global forests: Negative impacts far exceed the carbon benefits
Gundale, Michael J.Abstract
Humans have drastically altered the nitrogen (N) cycle during the past century, enriching ecosystems from the tropics to the tundra with unpresented inputs of novel nitrogen. The study by Schulte-Uebbing et al. (2021) quantified the impact of atmospheric N deposition on C uptake by forests globally, and weighed this climate benefit against the global warming impact of N2O emissions. A major conclusion was that the C benefits of atmospheric deposition in global forests are smaller than previously estimated (only 41 Tg C year−1), accounting for only 2% of the net annual forest C uptake.
Published in
Global Change Biology2022, volume: 28, number: 3, pages: 690-692
Publisher: WILEY
Authors' information
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Ecology and Management
UKÄ Subject classification
Forest Science
Environmental Sciences
Publication Identifiers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15959
URI (permanent link to this page)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/114423