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Russian forests and climate change
Summary
This expert scientific review examined the complex interactions between Russian forest ecosystems and climate change, covering carbon cycling, forest disturbances, biodiversity, and the feedback mechanisms through which forests influence and are influenced by a changing climate. It was prepared as a policy-oriented summary for decision makers and citizens within the European Forest Institute's science communication series.
We live in an intricate and changing environment with interrelated feedback between ecosystems, society, economy and the environment. EFI’s ‘What Science Can Tell Us’ series is based on collective scientific expert reviews providing interdisciplinary background information on key and complex forest-related issues for policy and decision makers, citizens and society in general.
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