Sentences with phrase «carbon storage potential»

In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, the IPCC estimate of carbon storage potential is about 587 million tons, while Asner's measurements show it to be about 395 million tons.

Analyzing «greenness» data collected from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor on the NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), the researchers identified Texas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri as the states with having the highest carbon storage potential by converting croplands to newly developed forests.

The most sophisticated models factor in plant growth to calculate carbon storage potential, but these models were inaccurate when it came to tree growth in the regions that Anderegg and his team studied.

Analysis of fossil pollen and spores from northern peatland reveals major shifts in Alaskan coastal climate and vegetation since the last ice age, which affects carbon storage potential.

If she finds a large number of genes governing processes that tuck away carbon dioxide, for example, the wetland likely has high carbon storage potential.

Further, pursuing cellulosic ethanol (a biofuel brewed from stalks and other leftover plant material) could eliminate the same remnants — and, therefore, their carbon storage potential — that no - till practices would otherwise sequester, Rice adds, noting that the risks and benefits of any solutions must be carefully weighed.

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

In the drive to produce more palm oil, for use in food and health products or in biodiesel, more and more forest is chopped down — in the process releasing vast amounts of stored carbon in the soil and reducing the carbon storage potential of the region, as well as destroying habitat for orangutans and other endangered species.