For every ton of new plant growth, only a small fraction would be released as CO2 through decay, burning, soil or insect metabolism. (green.blogs.nytimes.com)
Zebras walk an unmarked route that takes them to the next best place for grazing, while overhead thundering cloudbursts of late October rains drive new plant growth, filling pockmarks across this largest inland delta in the world. (sciencedaily.com)
So biogeochemist William Wieder of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and colleagues looked at the projections for new plant growth in the various models and considered how much new nitrogen and phosphorus would be required for these projections to be met. (sciencemag.org)