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Heat-stressed Australian forests are thinning fast, producing carbon emissions [View all]
https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/august/heat-stressed-australian-forests-are-thinning-fast,-producing-carbon-emissions22 Aug 2025
Heat-stressed Australian forests are thinning fast, producing carbon emissions
Heat-stressed Victorian mountain ash forests are thinning fast, turning from carbon sinks to carbon sources, new research reveals.
Published today in Nature Communications, the research shows forests will lose a quarter of their trees by 2080 due to global warning.
Mountain ash forests are currently one of Earth’s most effective ecosystems for storing carbon – they store more carbon per hectare than the Amazon.
But researchers say these forests will store less carbon in the future as warming causes more trees to die and decompose.
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Trouvé, R., Baker, P.J., Ducey, M.J. et al. Global warming reduces the carrying capacity of the tallest angiosperm species (Eucalyptus regnans). Nat Commun 16, 7440 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62535-xHeat-stressed Australian forests are thinning fast, producing carbon emissions
Heat-stressed Victorian mountain ash forests are thinning fast, turning from carbon sinks to carbon sources, new research reveals.
Published today in Nature Communications, the research shows forests will lose a quarter of their trees by 2080 due to global warning.
Mountain ash forests are currently one of Earth’s most effective ecosystems for storing carbon – they store more carbon per hectare than the Amazon.
But researchers say these forests will store less carbon in the future as warming causes more trees to die and decompose.
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