Increasing carbon stocks in the forest soils of western Europe

The soils of western European forests may be accumulating carbon, because tree biomass has been expanding in these forests already for decades, and the more numerous and larger trees can produce more litter. We calculated the carbon budget of soils and trees in the forests of 14 EU countries plus Norway and Switzerland from 1950 to 2040 by integrating forest resource information (inventory data from 1950 to 1990 and a forest resource forecast...