@Article{HeinrichVSRFSCAJSHS:2023:CaSiSe,
               author = "Heinrich, Viola H. A. and Vancutsem, Christelle and Silva, Ricardo 
                         Dalagnol da and Rosan, Thais M. and Fawcett, Dominic and 
                         Silva-Junior, Celso Henrique Leite and Cassol, Henrique 
                         Lu{\'{\i}}s Godinho and Achard, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Jucker, 
                         Tommaso and Silva, Carlos A. and House, Jo and Sitch, Stephen",
          affiliation = "{University of Bristol} and {Fincons Group} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {University of Exeter} 
                         and {University of Exeter} and {University of California} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {European 
                         Commission} and {University of Bristol} and {University of 
                         Florida} and {University of Bristol} and {University of Exeter}",
                title = "The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests",
              journal = "Nature",
                 year = "2023",
               volume = "615",
               number = "7952",
                pages = "436--442",
                month = "Mar.",
             abstract = "The globally important carbon sink of intact, old-growth tropical 
                         humid forests is declining because of climate change, 
                         deforestation and degradation from fire and logging13. Recovering 
                         tropical secondary and degraded forests now cover about 10% of the 
                         tropical forest area4, but how much carbon they accumulate remains 
                         uncertain. Here we quantify the aboveground carbon (AGC) sink of 
                         recovering forests across three main continuous tropical humid 
                         regions: the Amazon, Borneo and Central Africa5,6. On the basis of 
                         satellite data products4,7, our analysis encompasses the 
                         heterogeneous spatial and temporal patterns of growth in degraded 
                         and secondary forests, influenced by key environmental and 
                         anthropogenic drivers. In the first 20 years of recovery, regrowth 
                         rates in Borneo were up to 45% and 58% higher than in Central 
                         Africa and the Amazon, respectively. This is due to variables such 
                         as temperature, water deficit and disturbance regimes. We find 
                         that regrowing degraded and secondary forests accumulated 107 Tg C 
                         year\−1 (90130 Tg C year\−1) between 1984 and 2018, 
                         counterbalancing 26% (2134%) of carbon emissions from humid 
                         tropical forest loss during the same period. Protecting old-growth 
                         forests is therefore a priority. Furthermore, we estimate that 
                         conserving recovering degraded and secondary forests can have a 
                         feasible future carbon sink potential of 53 Tg C year\−1 
                         (4462 Tg C year\−1) across the main tropical regions 
                         studied.",
                  doi = "10.1038/s41586-022-05679-w",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05679-w",
                 issn = "0028-0836",
           targetfile = "s41586-022-05679-w.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "20 maio 2024"
}