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As carbon dioxide increases and climate changes over the next century,
will ecosystems react by storing more carbon or by releasing it? Whil
e many ecosystem models predict that natural forest systems ultimately
will store more carbon, transient scenarios predict that they will re
lease carbon during the transition. In this paper, we integrate ecosys
tem and management responses to a climate scenario and predict that in
creased amounts of carbon will be stored in both the short run and the
long run. These increases will come from two areas: adaptive response
s of forest managers and carbon storage within the economic system.