A study published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Maryland , Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona and other institutions has found that worldwide protected forests have an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon stored in their aboveground biomass compared to ecologically similar unprotected areas - a finding that quantifies how important protected areas are to continued climate mitigation efforts. "This is one of the first demonstrations of how new remote sensing technologies can be used to obtain detailed biomass estimates" The study, which was jointly funded by the U.

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