Time is not the driving influence of forest carbon storage, U-M study finds

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55% : It was a lot of work and many years in the making," said Jason Tallant, data manager and research specialist at UMBS and a co-author of the research.
51% : " The study was based on data that the team generated and compiled over decades at the U-M Biological Station in northern Michigan, including research infrastructure such as the 150-foot AmeriFlux tower, which is part of a network of instrumented sites in North, South and Central America that measure ecosystem carbon dioxide, water and energy "fluxes," and other exchanges between the land surface and atmosphere.

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