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Fertile forest experiments

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Long-term experiments under realistic conditions are beginning to deliver data on how forests — or at least some forests — will react to increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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Davidson, E., Hirsch, A. Fertile forest experiments. Nature 411, 431–433 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35078181

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