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Climate change may cut US forest inventory by a fifth this century

Phys.org · Laura Oleniacz · last updated

A study led by a North Carolina State University researcher found that under more severe climate warming scenarios, the inventory of trees used for timber in the continental United States could decline by as much as 23% by 2100.

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