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Front. For. Glob. Change, 26 February 2024

Sec. Forests and the Atmosphere

Volume 7 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1369184

Corrigendum: High emissions or carbon neutral? Inclusion of “anthropogenic” forest sinks leads to underreporting of forestry emissions

  • 1. School of Environmental Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

  • 2. International Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY, United States

  • 3. Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

  • 4. Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, Fredericton, NB, Canada

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In the published article, Bramley and Saul, 2022 was not cited in the article. The citation has now been inserted in 2.3, Paragraph 1 and should read:

“Our definition of annual net emissions associated with forestry comprises the sum of the flows that can reasonably be directly attributed to forestry activities on FLFL (see Bramley and Saul, 2022)”

In the published article, there was an error in Figure 5 as published. There was a minor change in input data to create the figure. The corrected Figure 5 and its caption **Figure 5. The components of forest carbon flows in Canada's NIR over the 16-year study period and their average values. The left-hand column shows major wildfires, insect outbreaks, and the subsequent removals from regrowth. The middle column shows emissions and removals directly attributable to forestry. The right column shows net calculations in this study and in Canada's NIR reporting. NIR emissions portray the managed forest as almost carbon neutral due to the NIR's disaggregation of significant natural disturbance emissions, while still including natural removals from forest regeneration and growth appear below.

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The components of forest carbon flows in Canada's NIR over the 16-year study period and their average values. The left-hand column shows major wildfires, insect outbreaks, and the subsequent removals from regrowth. The middle column shows emissions and removals directly attributable to forestry. The right column shows net calculations in this study and in Canada's NIR reporting. NIR emissions portray the managed forest as almost carbon neutral due to the NIR's disaggregation of significant natural disturbance emissions, while still including natural removals from forest regeneration and growth.

The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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forest carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, national inventory reports, anthropogenic sinks, wildfire

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Bysouth D, Boan JJ, Malcolm JR and Taylor AR (2024) Corrigendum: High emissions or carbon neutral? Inclusion of “anthropogenic” forest sinks leads to underreporting of forestry emissions. Front. For. Glob. Change 7:1369184. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2024.1369184

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19 January 2024

Accepted

30 January 2024

Published

26 February 2024

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7 - 2024

Edited and reviewed by

Mohammad Ibrahim Khalil, University College Dublin, Ireland

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*Correspondence: Julee J. Boan

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All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

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