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9 - Bringing It All Together

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2020

William J. Manning
William J. Manning
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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This chapter provides a review of interactive forest-related factors that influence the temperature of the atmosphere. Factors revisited and expanded from previous chapters include carbon dioxide, carbon accumulation, deforestation and afforestation, evaporation and transpiration, albedo, BVOCs, and ozone (Bonan, 2008; Mackey et al., 2013; Unger, 2014; Ellison et al., 2017). Occurring together, and influenced by many other factors, they constitute the system by which forests cool or warm the atmosphere.

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Trees and Global Warming
The Role of Forests in Cooling and Warming the Atmosphere
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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