Atul Jain and Prasanth Meiyappan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Atul Jain and Prasanth Meiyappan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Atmospheric sciences professor Atul Jain and graduate student Prasanth Meiyappan found that most carbon emissions models overestimate the capacity of regrowing forests to take in carbon. Despite a projected abundance of photosynthesis-fueling carbon, nitrogen is limited, thus limiting forests' growth.

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