Sentences with phrase «dead vegetation in»

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This is because firstly, the micro-organisms that break down dead trees produce copious amounts of CO2, and secondly, there is less vegetation remaining that can remove the greenhouse gas from the air by capturing the carbon in leaves, trunks and roots as part of its growth cycle.

Without roots to hold the soil in place, rivers and streams washed most of the dead vegetation to the sea where it then blocked the sun's light and sucked up all the oxygen.

Indeed, the pessimists among them talk about the planet being on the brink of a «global pandemic» of wildfires as a vast tinderbox of flammable shrubs and dead vegetation accumulates in forests, brush and grassland.

He found them in all 19 samples, including snow taken from Montana in the dead of winter, when there is almost no deciduous vegetation, and even in samples from Antarctica.

The dead speak: Tracking the cryospheric response to contemporary warming in Arctic Canada with entombed vegetation and in situ 14C in adjacent rocks.

The terrestrial biosphere reservoir contains carbon in organic compounds in vegetation (living biomass)(450 to 650 PgC) and in dead organic matter in litter and soils (1500 to 2400 PgC).

The process that sequesters carbon by turning dead trees and other vegetation into coal may not be happening at the same scale as in the past, but are you saying that it is not happening at all now?

This instrument can distinguish between green vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation — such as wood, dead vegetation and surface litter — and soil by analysing small changes in the colour spectrum of the land.