Chapter 9 . Alaska Carbon Balance

• Between 1950 and 2009, the upland and wetland ecosystems of the State were estimated to have sequestered an average of 3.7 teragrams of carbon per year (TgC/yr) (–141.4 to 72.0 TgC/yr inter-annual variability), which was 1.5 percent of net primary productivity (NPP) in upland and wetland ecosystems. However, this sequestration is spatially variable with the Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) North losing carbon because of fire disturbance and other regions gaining carbon.