Study: Recent Land-Use Trends Limit Carbon Potential

Over the next 50 years, land-use change in New England (both forest harvest and land development) will have more of an impact on forest dynamics than climate change.

And, if recent trends in regional land use are maintained, the landscape will fall far short of its potential to store carbon, explains a new paper in the journal Global Environmental Change, by HF Research Associate Matthew Duveneck and HF Senior Ecologist Jonathan Thompson.

• Read the full paper in Global Environmental Change: Social and biophysical determinants of future forest conditions in New England: Effects of a modern land-use regime
• Learn more about land-use change research in the Thompson Lab.
• Explore Harvard Forest's own land management strategy and related conservation work.