Sentences with phrase «global plant biomass»

The balance is going somewhere else and the best science says most of it is going into an increase in global plant biomass.

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Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high - tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant traits including leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, and specific leaf area (a measure of area displayed to intercept light per unit investment in leaf biomass).

Above - Ground Plant Biomass, Carbon, Nitrogen Dynamics Before and After Burning in a Seminatural Grassland of Miscanthus sinensis in Kumamoto, Japan, Yo Toma, Fabian Fernandez, Aya Nishiwaki, Toshihiko Yamada, German Bollero, J. Ryan Stewart, Global Change Biology - Bioenergy, 2 (2): pp. 52 - 62, April 28, 2010.

The report said power generated by new and existing wind, solar, biomass, waste - to - energy, geothermal, marine, and small hydropower plants comprised about 12.1 % of global power generation in 2017, up from 11 % in 2016.

Providing policy and financial incentives to use plant biomass for energy runs counter to the goal of protecting and regenerating ecosystems and thus threatens to greatly exacerbate global warming rather than mitigate it.

This greater plant growth means more carbon is stored in the increasing biomass, so it was previously thought the greening would result in more carbon dioxide being taken up from the atmosphere, thus helping to reduce the rate of global warming.

That means if plants around the world continue to adjust to rising carbon dioxide concentrations, increasing their biomass on a global scale, they could actually help offset some of our human carbon emissions by removing more carbon dioxide from the air.