A Circumpolar Perspective on the Contribution of Trees to the Boreal Forest Carbon Balance Pappas, Christoforos Babst, Flurin Fatichi, Simone Klesse, Stefan Paschalis, Athanasios Peters, Richard L. ddc:550 Partitioned estimates of the boreal forest carbon (C) sink components are crucial for understanding processes and developing science-driven adaptation and mitigation strategies under climate change. Here, we provide a concise tree-centered overview of the boreal forest C balance and offer a circumpolar perspective on the contribution of trees to boreal forest C dynamics. We combine an ant’s-eye view, based on quantitative in situ observations of C balance, with a bird’s-eye perspective on C dynamics across the circumboreal region using large-scale data sets. We conclude with an outlook addressing the trajectories of the circumboreal C dynamics in response to projected environmental changes. Springer Nature 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart doc-type:bookPart bookPart http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248 https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/record/22477 Pappas C, Babst F, Fatichi S, Klesse S, Paschalis A, Peters RL. A Circumpolar Perspective on the Contribution of Trees to the Boreal Forest Carbon Balance. In: <i>Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change</i>. Vol 74. Advances in Global Change Research. Cham: Springer Nature; 2023:271-294. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15988-6_10">10.1007/978-3-031-15988-6_10</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-15988-6_10 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1574-0919 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/e-issn/2215-1621 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/9783031159879 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/e-isbn/9783031159886 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess