The loss of late successional species has a disproportionate impact on terrestrial carbon storage in North America

David JP Moore1, Jason S McLachlan2, Adrian V Rocha3, Jody Peters3, Andria Dawson4, Ann Raiho5, Bethany Blakely5, Kelly Heilman5, Christopher J Paciorek6, Quentin Read7, Xiaoping Feng8, Charles V Cogbill9, Simon J Goring10 and PalEON Science Team, (1)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (3)University of Notre Dame, Department of Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States, (6)University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (8)University of Wisconsin Madison, Statistics, Madison, WI, United States, (9)Harvard Forest, Forestry, Petersham, MA, United States, (10)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, WI, United States