A substantial fraction of the terrestrial carbon sink, past and present, may be incorrectly attributed to environmental change rather than changes in forest management.
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This research was funded by the EU-FP7 project VOLANTE (265104), by the ERC Grants 263522 and 242564, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), project P20812-G11, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the proVISION programme of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and the Einstein Siftung Berlin. Comments by Jed O. Kaplan helped to improve the manuscript. This research contributes to the Global Land Project.
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Erb, KH., Kastner, T., Luyssaert, S. et al. Bias in the attribution of forest carbon sinks. Nature Clim Change 3, 854–856 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2004
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