And so this example of more rapid accumulation of carbon in deciduous broadleaf stands is a way of thinking of putting the brakes on the runaway train.
The third type is mostly coniferous forest found in regions where temperatures are mild, like in the classic broadleaf, but where summer droughts occur.
In Asia, most of Eastern China was once covered in mostly broadleaf forest, but millennia of high populations in this region has resulted in all of the land given over to agriculture or urban development.