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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program (BER), US Department of Energy (DOE), through the Western Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC) under Cooperative Agreement DE-FC03-90ER61010 and builds upon support at the WRCCRF by the University of Washington and the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the USDA Forest Service and National Science Foundation support for the canopy crane. We acknowledge each for significant assistance. A primary goal of the NIGEC program is to investigate the role of climate change on terrestrial carbon exchange, and it is within this context that the studies to evaluate the carbon dynamics of the Wind River old-growth forest were initiated. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the DOE.

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    Present address: Division of Environmental Contaminants, USFWS, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, California, 95825, USA

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  1. Western Regional Center: National Institute for Global Environmental Change, University of California, Davis, California, 95616, USA

    Thomas H. Suchanek & Susan L. Ustin

  2. Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, California, 95616, USA

    Thomas H. Suchanek

  3. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA

    Harold A. Mooney

  4. College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA

    Jerry F. Franklin

  5. Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, 28802, USA

    Hermann Gucinski

  6. Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, California, 95616, USA

    Susan L. Ustin

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Suchanek, T.H., Mooney, H.A., Franklin, J.F. et al. Carbon Dynamics of an Old-growth Forest. Ecosystems 7, 421–426 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-004-0134-7

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