author keywords: climate change mitigation; forest carbon; forest restoration; LANDIS-II; ponderosa pine; wildfire

MeSH headings : Arizona; Carbon / physiology; Computer Simulation; Fires; Forests; Models, Biological; Pinus ponderosa / physiology

TL;DR: It is found that thinning and burning treatments initially reduced total ecosystem carbon (TEC) and increased net ecosystem carbon balance (NECB) in the absence of wildfire, but in the presence of wildfire this reversed and TEC increased by both mean wildfire severity and its variability. (via Semantic Scholar)