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Analysis of Temperate Forest Ecosystems pp 226–241Cite as

Carbon Cycles and Temperate Woodlands

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The other chapters of this book have shown many ways of linking different parts of the same system to one another. Among the ways of linking the world’s regional and local systems to one another, unifying considerations of the circulation of carbon (and of nitrogen) through a common atmospheric pool have been recognized as important since Dumas and Boussingault (1844; see Riley, 1944). Even now we are not sure how important lands, especially forests, can be in modifying or stabilizing these cycles, but several kinds of information and models suggest that their importance may have been underestimated in the past (Figs. 1 and 2).

Contribution No. 9 from the Eastern Deciduous Forest Biome, US-IBP.

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Olson, J.S. (1973). Carbon Cycles and Temperate Woodlands. In: Reichle, D.E. (eds) Analysis of Temperate Forest Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85587-0_15

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