Sentences with phrase «forest carbon content»

His calculations, based on 2008 figures for the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, show that even assuming a lower estimate of forest carbon content, total and equivalent CO2 would level out at 476 parts per million, even if we stopped all fossil fuel use immediately.

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The findings concerning the distribution of tree crowns are important, because they can be used to draw conclusions about, for example, the carbon content or productivity of a forest.

Dr Ed Mitchard, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences, said: «Satellite maps of the world's forests don't contain enough information about their carbon content.

It looks fairly certain that Europe's next Earth - observing science mission to win approval for construction will be Biomass, a spacecraft that will be able to measure the carbon content of the world's forests with unprecedented range and accuracy.

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The carbon content then declines for two reasons — there is less forest becoming farm and more farmland over which to average the gains.

For example, we have captured that forests have much higher carbon content than farmland, and that farms using conservation techniques contain more carbon than those using conventional practice.

Pratseyo is now attempting to save the country's peat forests which contain eight times the carbon content of other rainforests by engineering a massive land - swap, essentially by convincing palm oil producers to move their operations to degraded land.

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That's because developed countries have set aside billions of dollars for REDD, but they won't start spending it in a big way until they see trustworthy reference levels that tell them both how much carbon is captured in the forests, farms, and prairies of recipient countries and how that carbon content is changing.

Zhaozhong Feng, of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and colleagues looked at the results of eight experiments in four continents on crops, grasslands and forests, and found that as carbon dioxide levels go up, the nitrogen content of the crop is lowered.

After all, scores of methodologies now exist for measuring the carbon content of trees, identifying the immediate threats to the forest, and quantifying the degree to which a project removes that threat.

Also, a causal dive into the above, in Talhelm, et al, «Elevated carbon dioxide and ozone alter productivity and ecosystem carbon content in northern temperate forests», Global Change Biology, 2014, 20, 2492 - 2504.

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