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This is a figure I'm working on for a paper on the relationship between disturbance and recovery in forests. These are some data over an old growth forest in the Pacific Northwest Cascade forest. The X is time of disturbance, and the three groups of points are three different ways of estimating forest carbon (its a known issue that two of the systems saturate around 400-500 Mg/Ha).
Most forests in this region are harvested around ~200-300 Mg/Ha, and usually harvested down to about 50-100 Mg/Ha, every 30 years.
are you going to put it on arxiv or similar? It seems like an interesting read!