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Forest recovery in the age of megafires – how can we predict if forests grow back?

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When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Environmental Science and Technology 2014 , 48 (16), 8936–8943. This may result in previously forested areas shifting into other types of ecosystems, such as grasslands. Emelko, M.