On May 11, 2016, Dr. Tatiana V. Loboda and Doctoral student Dong Chen, published a new paper entitled “Spatial distribution of young forests and carbon fluxes within recent disturbances in Russia” in the journal Global Change Biology (Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/gcb.13349/abstract).

Paper summary:

Forest stand age plays a major role in regulating carbon exchange between land and atmosphere in boreal and temperate forests. Russian forests account for nearly a fifth of the global forest cover; however, despite their critical role in controlling global carbon cycle, little is known about spatial patterns of young forest distribution across Russia as a whole. We present a map of young Russian forests derived from satellite observations by combining two different mapping approaches. Using this map and published carbon fluxes from other studies, we estimate that in total young Russian forests sequester 1.26 Tg C per year.