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Box 8.2, Figure 1

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Box 8.2, Figure 1: Estimates for carbon storage in natural area forests in New York City. (a) Mean estimated carbon stock per hectare in natural area forests (Pregitzer et al. 2019a, 2021); (b) estimates for carbon stocks vary based on vegetation types; and (c) estimates of the amount of carbon stock in different forest pools per hectare. The proportion of the total estimated carbon stock per pool is out of the total estimated for the entire city (1.86 TgC). Source: adapted from Pregitzer et al. (2021).