Boreal forests store a globally significant pool of carbon (C), mainly in tree biomass and soil organic matter (SOM). Although crucial for future climate change predictions, the mechanisms underlying C stabiliz
Properly managed fires can improve an ecosystem’s biodiversity and ability to store carbon. Expanding forests and improving wildfire management protect ecosystems that capture significant amounts of carbon, but experts have stated that more can be...
The University of Alberta reports that much of what once was tundra in northern Canada is turning into forests. They also noticed that the change from tundra to forest isn't linear; instead, it seems that the change happens in sudden spurts. The human cost of global warming is hard to ...
Some ecosystems are already changing drastically due to a shift in climate. The University of Alberta reports that much of what once was tundra in northern Canada is turning into forests. They also noticed that the change from tundra to forest isn't linear; instead, it seems that the change ...
Existing forests store CO2 in the form of carbon on a massive scale—and young, growing forests absorb significant amounts of CO2. However, on a global scale, because of deforestation (the permanent loss of forested area) and decay, forests are now releasing more CO2 than they are absorbing...
How do plant roots store carbon? Princeton researchers found that the energy a plant devotes to its roots depends on proximity to other plants: when close together, plants heavily invest in their root systems to compete for finite underground resources; if far apart, they invest l...
Its boreal forests store twice as much carbon per unit astropical forestsand help regulate the global carbon footprint. TheUnited States, on the other hand, holds about 8% of the world’s forests. Spread across 310 million hectares of land, these diverse forests range from the boreal forests...
But nevertheless, we have some great opportunities to cut emissions and remove carbon and add these two newpillars.For example, we can rewild old agricultural lands, bringing them back to nature,whether it's forests or ...
Soil biological activity was significantly lower in the driest ("dry") forests, which had more than double the SOC concentration in the upper 30 cm layer (3.28 g C/100 g soil ± 0.11 SE) compared to soils of the wettest ("humid") forests (1.32 g C/100 g soil ± 0.09 SE), ...
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