[HN Gopher] How many trees are there in the North American borea...
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       How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest?
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2025-06-06 19:28 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | chris_va wrote:
       | "Our best-performed and cross-validated random forest model ... "
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       | Someone had fun with that abstract.
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       | As an aside, though darker trees absorb more sunlight than
       | snow/ground, and the albedo effect starts to dominate in this
       | region (in terms of global warming) vs the CO2 benefit of more
       | trees:
       | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46577-1/figures/1 ...
       | so the mitigation potential is perhaps backward from what they
       | state in the paper.
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       | (disclaimer that I work in a related area)
        
       | teleforce wrote:
       | There's another effort to directly count and weight all trees in
       | the word [1].
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       | [1] The satellite that will 'weigh' world's 1.5 trillion trees:
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       | https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crldwjj6d6no
        
       | originalvichy wrote:
       | I would like to emphasize that the number of trees and ecological
       | biodiversity are things that are not necessarily tied together.
       | If you've ever lived in a country that farms trees, you have seen
       | the vast difference in the makeup of the forest biome compared to
       | an older forest.
        
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