Young forests can become carbon sinks in eight years

Researchers at Linnaeus University and Sweden's Agricultural University have recently published the study “From source to sink - recovery of the carbon balance in young forests” in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology about how long it takes for a young forest to go from being a carbon source to become a carbon sink. The results shows that regeneration felling areas become carbon sinks in a much shorter time than previously thought. Managed forests in Sweden are simply carbon sinks during a very large part of their long cycle from seedling to finished log.