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Acknowledgments

Funding: This project was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture McIntire-Stennis project number ME0-41825 through the Maine Agricultural & Forest Experiment Station; Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station Publication number 3701. Author contributions: A.F., A.D., and B.S. contributed the central idea, and A.F. and A.D. refined the idea. A.F., A.D., and B.S. analyzed the data. A.F., A.D., and B.S. contributed equally to the drafting of the manuscript. Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Data and materials availability: All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. Additional data related to this paper may be requested from the authors.

Submitted 9 July 2019 Accepted 2 January 2020 Published 25 March 2020 10.1126/sciadv.aay6792

Citation: A. Favero, A. Daigneault, B. Sohngen, Forests: Carbon sequestration, biomass energy, or both? Sci. Adv. 6, eaay6792 (2020).

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