Thompson, Matthew P.; Adams, Darius; Sessions, John - In: Ecological Economics 68 (2009) 10, pp. 2713-2720
Forests help mitigate climate change by sequestering atmospheric carbon. However, boreal and high-latitude temperate forests may also contribute to global warming due to the albedo effect. The relative effects of carbon sequestration and albedo can be quantified in terms of radiative forcing. We...