Comment on "The global tree restoration potential"

Alan Grainger; Louis R Iverson; Gregg H Marland; Anantha Prasad

doi:10.1126/science.aay8334

Comment on "The global tree restoration potential"

Science. 2019 Oct 18;366(6463):eaay8334. doi: 10.1126/science.aay8334.

Authors

Alan Grainger¹, Louis R Iverson², Gregg H Marland³, Anantha Prasad²

Affiliations

¹ School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. a.grainger@leeds.ac.uk.
² U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station and Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Delaware, OH 43015, USA.
³ Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA.

PMID: 31624185
DOI: 10.1126/science.aay8334

Abstract

Bastin et al (Reports, 5 July 2019, p. 76) neglect considerable research into forest-based climate change mitigation during the 1980s and 1990s. This research supports some of their findings on the area of land technically suitable for expanding tree cover, and can be used to extend their analysis to include the area of actually available land and operational feasibility.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Climate Change
Forests*
Trees*