Underappreciated
player in carbon storage should be included in global change models, researcher
says
July 10,
2012
BLOOMINGTON,
Ind. -- Elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide accelerate carbon cycling
and soil carbon loss in forests, new research led by an Indiana University
biologist has found.
The new
evidence supports an emerging view that although forests remove a substantial amount
of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, much of the carbon is being stored in
living woody biomass rather than as dead organic matter in soils.
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