Tropical forest restoration under future climate change

Abstract One of the most promising ways to rapidly remove CO 2 from atmosphere is through restoration tropical forests. Ongoing and future climate change may, however, threaten permanence carbon stored restoration. Excessive heat, drought or increased disturbances such as wildfire could all negatively impact integrity restored carbon. To investigate these risks forest restoration, we performed 221 simulations with a dynamic global vegetation model (LPJ-LMfire) driven by range scenarios ecophysiological responses concentrations. We show that in forests largely preserved under entire potential climates, regardless assumptions make about for fertilization photosynthesis. Restoring even half area can account 56–69% storage, depending on whether areas are selected low cost high gain.