A combined team of environmental scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Irvine, has found that increases in the frequency of severe wildfires in California has been reducing the ability of forests to recover, resulting in a reduction in carbon uptake. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group used ground observations and satellite imagery to measure gross primary production (GPP) in forests in California over the last century.
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