Sentences with phrase «carbon storage capacity»

Good practice is essential to limit further releases, and to protect and increase the existing carbon storage capacity of the land sector.

Grasslands that feature diverse plant species have more carbon storage capacity than less - diverse grasslands, largely because the former produce more biomass, the researchers say.

When grasslands feature a wide array of plant species, they provide a variety of benefits for humans and animals, including enhanced carbon storage capacity that can be quantified economically, according to a new scientific paper co-written by a University of Wyoming researcher.

It can take a century or more for a tree to get to its full carbon storage capacity, Pongratz said, and populations were recovering by then.

Lastly, this summary reveals that, contrary to what is observed elsewhere in the world, rainfall amounts have no impact on the carbon storage capacity of Amazonian soils.

In land - use decision making, carbon storage capacity is a benefit that should be considered as well, the paper says.

They found that increasing the number of plant species from one to 10 had twice the value of increasing from one to two species, from the standpoint of carbon storage capacity.

Once students have identified relationships (diameter and carbon storage capacity), have students create a graphical display of the data.

The massive, ongoing additions of carbon to the atmosphere from human activity far exceed the carbon storage capacity of global grasslands.

Using a computer program to model the change, he found that forests could lose as much as 12 percent of their carbon storage capacity — no small amount when you consider that tropical forests account for around 40 percent of the world's carbon stores.

Under the terms of both the UN Paris climate agreement and Europe's internal rules, carbon losses from forests supplying power stations should be declared as changes to the carbon storage capacity of forest landscapes.

Tree mortality and a general loss of biomass has cut the carbon storage capacity of Canada's boreal forests by around 7.28 million tons of carbon annually, equal to nearly 4 percent of Canada's total yearly carbon emissions.