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Quantifying forest change in the European Union

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  1. Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

    Iddo K. Wernick

  2. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-8 UPSACLAY, Gif sur Yvette, France

    Philippe Ciais

  3. Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden

    Jonas Fridman

  4. Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

    Peter Högberg, Annika Nordin & Pekka E. Kauppi

  5. Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland

    Kari T. Korhonen

  6. Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Pekka E. Kauppi

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This Comment was initiated by I.K.W. and P.E.K. P.C., J.F., P.H., K.T.K. and A.N. all contributed to the writing and editing of the Comment.

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Wernick, I.K., Ciais, P., Fridman, J. et al. Quantifying forest change in the European Union. Nature 592, E13–E14 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03293-w

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