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Area of forests and land-use change by biome, country or region, and year or period

Range	Table - link
Organism	Biosphere
Reference	Pan Y et al., A large and persistent carbon sink in the world's forests. Science. 2011 Aug 19 333(6045):988-93. doi: 10.1126/science.1201609 Supporting Online Material p.25 table S2PubMed ID21764754
Comments	"The area of global forests used as a basis for estimating C stocks and fluxes is 3.9 billion ha, representing 95% of the world’s forests (primary source) (table S2)." See notes beneath table
Entered by	Uri M
ID	110917